Personal Finances: Track family budget with fantastic ease!Comments on:

By: Mystery

Mystery — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:32:33 +0000

The program is great and usefull to those who need to preview and adjust their financial records on the move after the initial setup of your accounts/catagories etc everything will run so smooth and efficiently its a definate thumbs up from me….

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:37:10 +0000

I just came to the end of the month and the balance of my cash account did not transfer over to the next month! it still shows it in the account on the left but not in the transactions on the right. If I try to add the balance form last month to the transactions then the account balance goes over that amount.

By: jumbi

jumbi — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:48:47 +0000

“Personal Finances is portable and can run from the USB flash drive.”

Well, it runs only to the same computer installed so ITS NOT PORTABLE !

Perhaps with tricks can be made portable, but GAOTD or the developoer should not advertise it as portable, when its not.

Only solution is to offer again the portable version.

By: MichaelC

MichaelC — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:55:05 +0000

No matter what I do, download from here or the website, it installs as a demo (says so at the top). There is no “register” button under help. First time I’ve had this problem with a GOTD download. I’d really like to try out this program, it looks nice. If the developer is reading this, perhaps he could post a solution? Thank-you.

By: Don Wood

Don Wood — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:36:43 +0000

Jeez, I installed it on my Windows XP SP3 laptop AND my stick. Works on both. No problemo.

By: Zen

Zen — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:34:30 +0000

Doesn’t Import
* .ofx
* .qfx
* .qif
* .ofc
Files, How is this useful?

By: ThirstyFirsty

ThirstyFirsty — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:13:22 +0000

I love how you write, ALF. Great points with vague hints at sarcasm.

I tip my hat to you, Good Sir. I have epicly failed. =P

But in my defense, I wrote that comment before investigating the ‘behind the scenes’ workings of the software and therefore did not realize it’s cut-backs. I.E. the settings being stored in the AppData folders. (I am using Vista so the directories are different from Windows XP)

By: Blackstickman

Blackstickman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:00:08 +0000

Jim (#68), the word *administrator* in “C:\Users\*administrator*\AppData\Roaming\Alzex\Personal Finances” should be replaced with the name of the administrator account on your PC. For example, if the admin account on your computer is “Jim”, the path would be: “C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Roaming\Alzex\Personal Finances”. Or simply type key.dat in the search box in Windows Explorer and search the whole system.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:51:40 +0000

Another cool giveaway. I prefer this budget layout to MS Money. Installed & no probs on Vista 64 bit.

By: Hal

Hal — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:37:54 +0000

Just wanted to be fair and give an update.

I wrote comment #46 before #63 explained how to make it truly portable.

Those instructions do work, and I’ve tested it on different machines. Also, to the person who said those of us who want to make it portable must be financial professionals, trying to deprive the developer, etc.: I can’t speak for anybody else, but I am certainly no financial professional (which is why I need something like this), nor am I trying to deprive anyone of anything. I need it portable because I own more than one computer but I need one location for my data AND I need to back it up my information once entered.

Now that it’s portable I can just copy my backup to a new USB and I’m back in business if my USB or hard disk ever fails. The registration information can be backed up as well when it’s portable (unlike the desktop/laptop version).

Now that it suits my needs and appears to be a well written and useful program, two big thumbs up.

Thanks to the developer, GAOTD and BSD(#63)!