Tag: QuickBooks Messenger

QuickBooks 2011 Quick Startup and Multiple Instances

| September 20, 2010

Two significant changes in QuickBooks 2011 are the Quick Startup feature (which improves the startup speed for QuickBooks) and the Multiple Instances feature (allowing two company files to be open at the same time). I’m recommending that you be cautious with these features until you understand the impact they will have on your use of […]

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QuickBooks 2009 Release R5 and QuickBooks Messenger

| January 5, 2009 | 15 Comments

In an earlier article I talked about the new QuickBooks Messenger feature, which some people love and others hate. I provided a method that you could use to turn it off, which involved renaming or erasing a file. One problem with this approach – when you update to a new release, the Messenger feature would […]

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QuickBooks Messenger

| October 27, 2008 | 24 Comments

One of the new features introduced in QuickBooks 2009 is the QuickBooks Messenger, a feature that helps with communication between QuickBooks users in multi-user environments. I’ll give you a brief overview, talk about what it can do and some of its shortcomings, and also talk about how to disable it if you don’t want it.  […]

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