Comments on: Should I Use QuickBooks Automatic Updates?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:05:05 +0000

Ben, this is a summary – I’ll have a more detailed article next week in my new blog at http://www.sleeter.com/blog/

In QB, select “help” then “Update QuickBooks”. Select the “Options” tab. Note the location listed as the “download location”.

Go to that folder, you will see several sub folders, like “Guide” and “Patch” and so forth. Probably about 7 folders.

Delete each of these folders.

That gets rid of the patches waiting to be applied.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:41:45 +0000

I am unable to stop the window from popping up, I’ve set the automatically Download Updates to “No” but the window keeps popping up because the update has been downloaded to quickbooks even though I haven’t installed it yet. how can I get rid of that update so one of the other clients doesn’t accidentally hit the update button? Please email me if you have a chance.

Thank you for your time

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:37:31 +0000

Joe, I don’t work with the Payroll system, so I can’t really answer that question. I would think that it can be done that way, but I’m just speculating.

By: Joe Arroyo

Joe Arroyo — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:27:36 +0000

The idea of centralizing updates sounds like a good idea for us until we can better manage the automatic side. Do you know if this strategy will also work with the payroll feature? This is where we got bitten yesterday and the fix took nearly all day to resolve. Very stressfull since it was payday and the updates were for Wisconsin and New Mexico, we’re in Louisiana.