What does the SANITIZE.EXE do? ============================== Most Quicken customers are afraid to send tech support copies of their Quicken data files, because there is a lot of personal financial information involved. The Sanitize tool is an attempt solve this problem. Sanitize.exe takes a Quicken Datafile, copies it, and scrambles all of the information in the COPIED datafile. If you reopen the copied datafile, you'll see that all of the payee names, security names, account names, categories have been changed to scrambled strings. How to install Sanitize.exe =============================== 1.) Copy sanitize.exe from the directory that this readme.txt file is located to the directory where you installed Quicken. That's it. How to Use Sanitize.exe =============================== 1.) Make a backup of your quicken data file. We STRONGLY suggest that you backup your quicken data file. 2.) Goto the file menu and choose the OPEN option. Find the Quicken Data File that you want to scramble. A directory called ""UNNAMED"" will be created in the same directory as your original data file. A copy of your data file will be copied to that directory. REMEMBER: The COPIED data file will be scrambled, NOT the ORIGINAL FILE.