Before updating, please:

• Check if you already have the latest update. Choose About Quicken from Quicken's Help menu, located near the top of the Quicken screen. If you see Release R9 below the Quicken logo, your program is already up-to-date.
• Make sure you have completed all previous online sessions (if you use transaction download or Billpay. If you don't use either of these, go directly to step 1 below). From Quicken's Online menu, choose Online Center. Click Update/Send. If your last online session was not completed, you'll see the message Your last online session was not completed. Quicken will now try to complete this previous connection. After it is done, you can send your new request. Click OK to complete your previous connection. Once the connection is complete, you are ready to update

If you don't use transaction download or Billpay, you can go right to downloading the manual update:

1. To download the manual update, click here (17 MB).
2. Choose to Save the file, then browse to your desktop and save it there.
3. From your desktop, double-click the newly downloaded file QW08R9Patch.exe (if using Windows Vista, right-click the file and choose Run as Administrator even if logged in as administrator).
4. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the update.
5. When finished, follow the instructions at the top of this article to ensure that Quicken has been updated to Release R9.

Refer to the Quicken 2008 for Windows Release Notes to see what is included in each Quicken release.