Quick Books Tip
08 Nov 2005
Using Quick Books in a school environment can be difficult to administer. When opening Quick Books Pro 2005 I ran into a license / registration problem. I imaged the computers a few weeks ago and Quick books had not been used since then. Some how over time the registration file became corrupt. When starting QB it would crash and report a fatal error in File:..\.\scr\LincenseUtility.cpp Line 431. Well after two hours on the phone with India I was told a fix. Rename these two files to .old.
C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks 2005\Data\qbhsPro.da
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\Entitlement Client\EntitlementDataStore.ecml
If you use start up scripts you can do a simple .bat file like this.
@echo off
echo Fixing Quick Books 2005
move “C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks 2005\Data\qbhsPro.dat” “C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks 2005\Data\qbhsPro.old”
move “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\Entitlement Client\EntitlementDataStore.ecml” “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\Entitlement Client\EntitlementDataStore.old”
echo Finished
This will force Quick books to re-register and you will be able to enter your registration information again. Thanks Steven for the log on script.
–