QuickBooks Error Code 1603 - How to Fix

How can QuickBooks Error code 1603 be fixed?

Thought to share my solution for fixing Quickbooks Error 1603 when installing Quickbooks Desktop Software. 


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 Fix QuickBooks Error 1603 While Installing QuickBooks Desktop

Already tried the recommended actions from Quickbooks knowledge-base but still get the error .Tech support doesn't know what to do. During an installation of Quickbooks, I encountered this error .And Quickbooks / Intuit knowledge base documentation suggested downloading and install the diagnostic tool to diagnose and possibly help fix the error . I received the same Quickbooks error 1603 while install the diagnostic tool. 

The OS was Windows 10. The user coincidentally had another computer,  another Windows 10 desktop, that had Quickbooks installed. So what's different , the build number. 

Fix Error 1603 when you install QuickBooks Desktop

Without getting into build number differences of Windows 10, let me provide the information I found and fixed Quickbooks installation error 1603. I tried all the recommended steps from Quickbooks and other posts and forums. 

Download the Quickbooks installer if you don't have it already. 

Right click the file and select properties. 




Then click on the compatibility tab. Check the Compatibility Mode, then runs compatibility for Windows 7. Save your changes and rerun the installation. 

Quickbooks Install Error 1603 on Azure Windows 10 virtual desktop 

Don't know if it made a difference but the desktop was a virtual machine in Azure. It was an Azure Windows 10 virtual desktop.


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2 comments:

QB Support said...

I repeatedly get the QuickBooks install error 1603. I was also getting the error while trying to use the intuit QuickBooks Hub tool. That would not install either just as you described .the desktop was windows 10. Documentation my company has did not have this solution so thank you for it. The solution in my case worked perfectly well. All I had to do was change the properties of the installation file to run in windows compatibility mode. What made this situation strange was intuit QuickBooks desktop was installed on another windows 10 computers in the office. Other users had it installed, the same version without error 1603. I can't say if the Windows build version was the same but they were Windows 10 desktops. I eventually found this post and I was able to fix the Intuit QuickBooks Error 1603 on the one desktop that I could not otherwise install the software on. Sorry for the long comment.

GTech said...

This solution for for quickbooks error 1603 still works. I had the issue of error 1603 on windows 11.

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