Not familiar with Money Essentials but I installed Money 2006 on my new PC
with Vista and it worked ok.

Nonetheless I would expect some sort of conversion feature should be built
in

Bill

"Amature expert" <Amatureexpert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I recently purchased a new laptop that uses Vista. My other laptop used
> XP
> and I used MS Money 2006 Delux. When I try to restore a backup file from
> my
> MS 2006 to Money Essentials installed on the laptop with Vista, I get a
> message that says "Money Essentials is unable to open files from other
> versions. How am I supposed to transfer all those years of financial
> records
> to the new laptop and the new version of MS Money? Has anyone run across
> the
> same issue?
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