microsoft money question

win 7 home premium
trying to install microsoft money deluxe sunset edition downloaded from microsoft website.
download completes successfuly. start installing and encounter this error near end of installation "autorun.inf file missing or corrupt". do a bunch of searching. find out then that this program will supposedly only run on a win 7 professional, ultimate os because of compatability issues. we do not want to spend a hundred bucks to upgrade os to pro just to see if an obsolete money program will work okay. I do not have a disc, this is a downloaded program. do you think the following is a legitimate solution?
I find a registry fix that says it takes care of all this and allows it to run on win 7 premium. I also do not want to butcher the registry. the registry fix has step by step instructions with screenshots and seems pretty simple. anyone here with microsoft money knowledge? if the answer really is "it will not work no matter what, I'll quit now". the wife and I have used money for quite a time and know our way around it. tried quicken and a few others, but none do what we want and can do in money. I can post a link to the registry fix if needed, but don't want to infringe on protocol. need some knowledgeable advice from geeks who know.:confused

 

Man let me tell you buddy, maybe you can get a more favorable comment from someone else, but registry fixes just are not cool with me. I'm not saying it's a form of hacking, but I just don't advise it. Wait and see what other responses you get before you do anything.

 

This says it works on XP.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20738

 

Money is no longer supported as of 2011, so really not a good thing to be playing around with. Get yourself a mint.com account, and be done.

 

thanx nick
Iam not comfortable with a registry change either.
I got the same from microsoft working on win 7, but upon searching I find it has to run in compatability mode for xp and only the pro versions of win 7 come with that capability. so I would have to upgrade. really don't want to spend money just for that one utility, but may have to as we really like money. ckeck in tomorrow to see if any other suggestions pop up. thanx again

 

As far as I am aware changing the registry to make the OS advertise itself as a pro version won't allow you to use compatibility mode. I can't see a solution to this problem apart from recommending that if you have a spare copy of XP that you virtualise it.

 

thanks for all the help. going to try gnu cash and see if it will fit the bill.:wave

 

going to try that mmex program also david. I'll get back and let you know about it

 

just for further info. loaded mmex software and using it now. great little program for what we need. does what we need perfectly