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I just upgraded to the latest virtualbox and extensions and guest additions. Now, my Quickbooks 2011 won't work. I've been using my setup for over a year with no problems, upgrading vb as releases are available.

What happens is that Quickbooks opens normally and prompts for the password. Everything is fine to that point. Once I enter the password and it opens the data file and begins to open its windows, the entire guest display begins flashing wildly. It seems to cycle through what it is supposed to display, all black, and a mostly white with a black area in the center like it appears at first boot. If I do something like sent ctrl-alt-del, I can see that come up. So the system is responding. It also responds to network queries. But it is unusable and unrecoverable without a shutdown.

The problem is apparently in the guest additions. If I uninstall guest additions, it works fine. Reinstall them, haywire, even when not using full screen or display/pointer integration/seamless.

I really am not interesting in living without guest additions. Any suggestions?

bigmeow wrote:Any suggestions?

When things are working OK for over a year with no problems, don't upgrade.

I just ran into this problem. I tried disabling guest additions, reverting to 4.0.xx, nothing worked. Finally I tried running Quickbooks under an Administrator account. No more flickering! I changed the account that I normally log in to an Administrator type, and everything is back to normal. Except now I'm running dangerously with administrative privileges just to run a regular program, something that Microsoft struggled mightily to fix. Thanks for nothing, Intuit!