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QuickBooks 2010 and 2009 PDF Printer Problems with 64 Bit Systems

If you are using a 64 bit operating system and QuickBooks 2009 or 2010, you may run into some problems This article talks about how to resolve the problem.

Please note that this article relates to specific revisions/versions of the US editions of QuickBooks:

• QuickBooks 2010 R4 and later
• QuickBooks 2009 R10 and later

QuickBooks 2010 and Integrated Application Errors (80040408 etc.)

QuickBooks Compatible add-on programs (also referred to as “third party” programs) generally use the SDK (software development kit) provided by Intuit. This allows them to exchange information with QuickBooks in a controlled and secure fashion. With the release of QuickBooks 2010 we have seen a number of complaints from people using a variety of add-on programs, generally saying that their add-on programs stopped working.

QuickBooks and Windows 7

Back in July I wrote an article about QuickBooks on Windows 7 RC and Internet Explorer 8, where I talked about QuickBooks 2009 on the pre-release version of Windows 7. Since that time we have had the public release of Windows 7, and the release of QuickBooks 2010, so it is time that I revisited this subject.

QuickBooks 2010 Overview

Hot on the heals of my “preview” article yesterday, here is additional information on QuickBooks 2010. This information has been released to ProAdvisors but it hasn’t yet hit the Intuit end-user oriented web sites. I’ll have more details in the coming weeks, with screen shots and more details, when Intuit releases the product.

QuickBooks 2010 contains a number of new features, as well as some improvements of existing features. The following is a quick list of SOME of the new and improved features (please note that this is not a list of bug fixes).

QuickBooks on Windows 7 RC and Internet Explorer 8

Just a quick note on compatibility of QuickBooks and the latest Microsoft releases. I have the following setup:

• Microsoft Windows RC 7: This is the current “release candidate” for Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista. It should be very close to what you see this Fall for the production copy. I’ve installed this on a Dell XPS410 32 bit Core2 system with 4 GB of RAM. I had reformatted the hard drive to do a clean installation rather than an update.
• Internet Explorer 8: This is the version of IE that installs with Windows 7. Even if you are using Vista or XP you may have this version, as Microsoft has been pushing it out through their update system.
• QuickBooks Enterprise 9.0: For this test I installed a client version of QBE 9 on the system, as this computer is not connected to a server yet. This is a US edition.