How To Disable The Accountant Center From Opening On Startup

Introduction

Accountant editions of QuickBooks (QuickBooks Premier Accountant or QuickBooks Enterprise Accountant) have this nifty feature called the Accountant Center that contains a suite of tools to help accountants. However, by default, the Accountant Center is set to automatically appear when a QB file is opened in an Accountant's Edition...and that can be annoying as it opens at startup every time.

Thus, we can disable the show Accountant Center when opening a company file option for the QB installation to save our clients a few inconvenient extra clicks.

Disable the Accountant Center at Startup

1. Log into the server with QuickBooks Accountant's Edition
2. Browse to the C:\ProgramData\Intuit\QuickBooks *Year number*\ directory on the server
3. Right-click the QBW.ini file, select Properties, and then uncheck the Read-only attribute
4. Launch the QuickBooks application and open a sample QuickBooks file
5. When the Accountant Center appears, uncheck Show Accountant Center when opening a company file
6. Close the sample QuickBooks file
7. Open the same QBW.ini file, remove any name that appears in the LASTUSERNAME= line, and then Save
8. Right-click the QBW.ini file, select Properties, and re-check the Read-only attribute

If the Accountant Center did not appear when opening the sample QuickBooks file, go to Accountant > Accountant Center from the top menu and double-check to make sure that option is not selected.