Try Intuit again.
If intuit can not help, uninstall then reinstall Quicken.
Otherwise since this is a Windows Update newsgroup, you should ask this in a
Windows XP newsgroup:
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm
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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org
"Dwolf" <> wrote in message
news:E6A2FF11-7114-4D1B-A54B-...
>I have Quicken Basic 2005 and Windows XP SP2 and every time I open Quicken
> the Task Manager window shows a qw.exe process. This process, however
> does
> not terminate when I close the program. Since I rarely reboot my system,
> every time I open Quicken , a new qw.exe starts and I have seen as many as
> 4
> qw.exe processes running. Each of these take ~43,000 kb, so my machine
> gets
> slower and slower. I asked the question at the Intuit site and the
> response
> naturally suggested that it was a Windows XP problem.
>
> Is this a know issue and is there a way to terminate these processes when
> I
> close Quicken without going through the Task Manager? This is annoying.
>
> All help is gratefully appreciated.
> --
> --Dwolf