Help! MS Money on Vista........

canary2211

I cannot access MS Money files (9 years of records!) now I have upgraded PC to Vista. Asks for a password - which I never used, or else tells me the file is corrupt. I have tried everything I can think of. I'm running MS Money 2002 and I wonder if one of those sneaky in the background updates included a password facility (which I am sure I never used!)

At wits end after two days of trying to recover all that data......

Iconic

I use MS Money 2002 with Vista.

I assume you saved a .mny file before you upgraded. Just right click on it and open it with Money 2002.

canary2211

Iconic wrote: »

I use MS Money 2002 with Vista.

I assume you saved a .mny file before you upgraded. Just right click on it and open it with Money 2002.

Thanks for the reply. Yes I have a mny file and a backup. Neither will run. Have tried various file recovery and password recovery tools - without success.

Iconic

canary2211 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply. Yes I have a mny file and a backup. Neither will run. Have tried various file recovery and password recovery tools - without success.

Have you tried this one from MS...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902466

alanclarke

An article at http://money.mvps.org/faq/article/403.aspx states that Money 2002 runs on Vista and they suggest running in "Compatibility Mode" see http://money.mvps.org/faq/article/514.aspx

If that doesn't help post on the "UK Money" section of the Microsoft Discussion Group at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.uk.money&cat=en_US_f86c3677-5c10-45c7-bfdb-9b2b021c4979&lang=en&cr=US - this is monitored by MVPs from Microsoft and they usually have answers to most problems regarding UK Money.

canary2211

alanclarke wrote: »

An article at states that Money 2002 runs on Vista and they suggest running in "Compatibility Mode" see

If that doesn't help post on the "UK Money" section of the Microsoft Discussion Group at - this is monitored by MVPs from Microsoft and they usually have answers to most problems regarding UK Money.

Thanks for these ideas: no luck with compatability. Have left a message on the MS forum.

mr_fishbulb

If it is a fresh install, Money may need to do some updates before it will read the file. I know my 2005 version did.