Microsoft KB Archive/191189

Money 99: Headlines and Tax Rates Information No Longer Updates

PSS ID Number: Q191189 Article last modified on 04-08-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft Money 99 == 

= SYMPTOMS =

When you use Money 99 Basic, you may experience the following symptoms:


 * When you click Update Internet Information, Money does not report that it is updating the “Current mortgage and tax rates from Decision Center.”
 * When you click Options on the Tools menu, the following options are unavailable on the Connection tab:
 * Headlines and updates from the Internet.
 * Current mortgage and tax rates from the Internet.
 * Money provides new headlines on the Home screen, but tax and mortgage information is not updated.

= CAUSE =

This issue can occur in Money 99 Basic if you click Options on the Tools menu, and then click OK.

= RESOLUTION =

To resolve this problem, download the Taxmortg.reg file from the Microsoft Software Library. Double-click the Taxmortg.reg file to enable Money 99 to download tax and mortgage rates whenever you change your settings in the Options dialog box. If you are not interested in updating tax and mortgage rates on every Internet call, use the TaxMortg.reg file selectively to have Money download these files only when you want to.

NOTE: The Taxmortg.reg file is intended for use only with the United States version of Money 99 Basic. Do not use the Taxmortg.reg file with any other version of Money 99.

= STATUS =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Money 99 Basic.

This problem does not occur in Money 99 Financial Suite or Money 99 Personal & Business.

= MORE INFORMATION =

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:

http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/TaxMortg.exe (http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/TaxMortg.exe)

Release Date: Mar-31-1999

For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

Save the TaxMortg.exe file to a location on your hard disk drive and then double-click it. This extracts two files:


 * TaxMortg.reg
 * Readme.txt

The Readme.txt file contains information about how to use these files.

Contents of Readme.txt
To reset the Windows registry so that Money 99 Basic downloads tax and mortgage rates, follow these steps any time you modify Options:


 * 1) Quit Money.
 * 2) Go to the location where you saved TaxMortg.exe and double-click the TaxMortg.reg file.
 * 3) When notified that this was successfully registered, click OK.
 * 4) Open Money, and then click Update Internet Information on the Home screen.

Additional query words: w_money 7.0 toy

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