How to Fix QuickBooks Not Responding or QuickBooks Has Stopped Working Error?

by Diana Smith QuickBooks Error

QuickBooks accounting software helps all small and medium sized businesses in all their accounting and finance tasks. QuickBooks help companies in creating invoices, maintaining records, paying bills etc. That is it streamlines the business accounting process. But at certain times you might see a technical snag in while using QuickBooks. And this can be quite annoying as it will not allow you to work on QuickBooks. ‘QuickBooks not responding’ results in failure to work on QuickBooks.

When you try to open QuickBooks and QuickBooks is not responding, then you might see the message- QuickBooks has stopped working”.

Some of the causes for ‘QuickBooks won’t open” issue are:

The hard drive might be corrupted.
There might be damaged or missing QBWUSER.INI files.
Windows operating systems can be damaged.
Perhaps the company file name is too long.
QuickBooks installation can be damaged, which may result in QuickBooks not responding.
Program files might be damaged.
Low system resources can also result in this issue.

Various symptoms of issue- QuickBooks not responding are:

The system may shut down.
Error stating ‘QuickBooks stopped working’ might appear on the screen repeatedly.
Your device may freeze repeatedly.
QuickBooks may not open when you try to open it.

What are the ways to fix QuickBooks not responding- issue?

You can fix the frustrating issue – ‘QuickBooks not responding’ by the below mentioned troubleshooting:

Solution 1: By using QuickBooks refresher tool.
Solution 2: Creating a new windows admin user
Solution 3: Changing the name QB.INI file.
Solution 4: By using QuickBooks system repair tool.
Solution 5: By turning off the antivirus program:

Hopefully, the issue- QuickBooks freezes up would have been resolved by now. If the issue still persists and you are unable to fix this. You can reach out to QuickBooks Enterprises Support at +1-888-485-0289 and our technical support team will help you in fixing ‘QuickBooks not responding’.