I'm not sure if Intuit like this and they will probably take this post down
We were wondering if the removal of IE from Windows 11 is still a big issue for users of older Quickbooks Desktop versions?
We've taken up this issue on the latest Windows 11 22H2 and spent about 2 weeks developing and documenting a solution that does indeed get older versions of Quickbooks running on Windows 11.
We have successfully got fully featured trial versions of Quickbooks Premier 2012 and Quickbooks Enterprise 2014 both running well in Windows 11 22H2 and several weeks of Microsoft updates have not broken it. On Win11 version 22H2, IE is completely removed from the system, and even downloading older versions of IE from Microsoft have the all important iexplore.exe file missing. But we found a solution. Overall the problems were many but one after the other, we were able to solve the all.
As a QB user for 15+ years, I haven't been able to so far identify any issues with their functionality. Both versions are creating transactions, recording payments, completing payroll, opening external internet links, running reports, adding accounts, printing, exporting to Excel etc etc. In our testing after the changes, we could not identify any QB errors or issues.
Unfortunately, the solution is not as simple as we would like and one of the steps involved the use of a 3rd Party App (which is the only Microsoft approved app for Windows in it's class but does cost a one time fee to buy. But once you fix the QB issue, you will still have a brilliant and useful new app). However, it does indeed work, when used in conjunction with the other fixes we documented. Beyond the IE11 issue we found several issues with Windows 11 missing default components, permission issues, left over incorrect registry entries etc but these are all resolved fairly easily within Windows itself with no registry hacks or additional files needed from anywhere else apart from Microsoft themselves.
Additionally, with IE11 enabled, it still works exactly as Microsoft intended after their June 2022 update. If you try and open IE11 outside of QB, it will still default back to MS Edge which is great. However, internally Quickbooks will use the IE11 browser to open links within QB and operates just the way it did years back when we had these versions on Windows 7 and 10.
The issues we needed to solve with older versions of Quickbooks on Win 11 has nothing to do with Quickbooks itself. No changes needed to be made to Quickbooks files or functionality. They are all Windows 11 issues and all solvable with no hacking and no manual edits of the windows registry and no files used from outside of Microsoft.
We believe there is about a week of work in getting our documented solution available for release as a full guide on the internet. We also think that our solution could be somewhat simplified by tracing the changes made on of the steps. We aren't entirely sure it is worth that effort, unless there is a genuine commercial demand out there.
My question is - If you could get your older versions of Quickbooks Desktop running on the latest Windows 11 Build 22H2 for under $100 which includes the cost to buy the brilliant app, would you do it?
Note whilst writing this question (1st Dec 2022) in today’s Microsoft Updates we got "2022-11 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5020044)", so we are now on Windows 11 22H2 Build 22621.900 and both versions of QB we installed are still working.
