QuickBooks accounting software has marked its presence in the accounting industry, by not just because of the features that it offers, but also the frequent update releases that makes it better each time. Being a professional, we always recommend you to update QuickBooks desktop to the latest release, so as to ensure that your software is up to date and also to have an edge over the competitors. If you are also planning to update this software, then going through this segment will surely help. 

These updates are basically termed as patches and they optimize the performance of QuickBooks and also resolve many known issues automatically. Go through this write up to find out the right process to update QuickBooks desktop to the latest release. Or connect with our tech support team using our helpline. 

Manual steps for updating QuickBooks 

You can perform the below steps, so as to update QuickBooks manually. 

  • Initially, close QuickBooks company files. 

  • Open the windows start menu. 

  • Look for QuickBooks. 

  • Right click the icon and choose run as admin. 

  • When on the no company open screen, move to help menu and choose update QuickBooks desktop. 

  • Head to options tab and choose mark all and choose save. 

  • Head to the update now tab and also select the reset update checkbox. 

  • You are also supposed to choose get updates. 

  • When the update completes, you need to close and reopen QuickBooks desktop to install the updates hit yes. 

  • Reboot the system. 

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