How To Disable the Quicken Registration Prompt
Published January 31, 2010 | 
I’ve been upgrading and installing software on my new machine this weekend and with that I moved away from the now defunct Microsoft Money to Quicken 2010. Personally I think the interface and other features of Quicken are quite quirky, but that’s neither here nor there. One is supported and the other is a steamy pile (even though the UI is better). Anyway, after importing everything and setting up new accounts Quicken throws up this incredibly annoying screen that says I need to register to actually use their program to download my bank info. Excuse me? WTF? I have to make an account with you to use this program? (Yet another online account I will never actually use?) That doesn’t fly. I have all my bank details and credit card info in here and now you want me to basically send that to you? I think not.
Just as I was about to remove it and write a terse vulgarity filled email I came across the answer: Disable Quicken Registration Prompt
Simply put, hold down the left CTRL + Shift keys and click the Update button toward the top. You’ll immediately get a confirmation that you are turning off the registration prompts and won’t be prompted to register anymore. But you can still get bank updates like you expect. Hopefully this little trick will keep working (I just did it in the 2010 version). I don’t really like registering software and giving companies more details about me.
Let me know about your successes.
It works with Quicken 2011. Thanks for the advice.
How can I bring back the “registration” item in the help menu?
Thank you so much! I was having a problem getting past the Registration screen with a “please wait while Microsoft Windows configures Quicken 2010″ followed by some Error 1721 Windows Installer error, so couldn’t ever get registered (hence, no updates). This trick worked to just bypass that whole mess and get me my updates — after at least an hour of searching for fixes, your quick tip did the trick!! Thanks!