(4th edit) Hi, I'm moderately proficient IT-skills-wise and OS-installations but am now newly dipping my toes into Linux-type environment by attempting to install Skrooge under Windows. I followed the Skrooge.org "Windows installation":

Get the KDE on Windows installer
In the startup wizard, select "package manager" as profile
Pick up a mirror...
Select "stable latest" for the version.
Select Skrooge in the list of available packages
Install
Enjoy

I followed KDE Installer for Windows - https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_o ... stallation (page last mod. 9 June 2013) - which appears to advise the canny installer to choose "C:\KDE4" rather than the "C:\Program Files" default on the screenshot, so I set up "C:\KDE". Likewise it appears to advise "C:\KDE4-tmp" rather than the "C:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\temp" screenshot default, so I set up "C:\KDE-temp". Everything appeared to install fine.

Just one problem. I found Skrooge.exe icon in C:\KDE\bin and copied it to desktop, but it doesn't work. The program QT Assistant does *appear* to work - but no other .exe programs in the bin directory do any more than open up a command line for a couple of seconds. The Skrooge program icon had not appeared anywhere else where I'd hope to find it, Desktop, Taskbar or Start Menu; nor is there any indication of Skrooge in Programs - unlike WAMP which I also installed on the C-drive. Neither could I find KDE4 nor Skrooge in programs to Uninstall. I tried just moving the folders out of the C-drive and reinstalling/uninstalling from the KDE installer. But I still get prompts for the C-drives I'd set up, and not the default prompts it had had originally.

I checked the Skrooge Windows installation:

In case you can't get skrooge working by following the above procedure, you should check the following packages have been installed
qca
kdebase-runtime
kdelibs
sqlite

and kdebase-runtime was not visible, either in my download folder C:\KDE-temp nor in the list of downloads possible when I reran the KDE install program to search for more downloads. I see it is available online but don't know if (a) it is still needed nor (b) how to install and integrate it if needed. More Linux basics no doubt I think the Windows KDE installer prompts and tests page needs updating. So this is a request not just for me but for potentially many others too.

I liked the look of Skrooge particularly the multiple categorising facility, though I realized it might be an interesting learning experience . I've been using Quicken 2000 but cannot export as .csv only as QIF and even there I just hope it will work. I am just running a home business and would like to find something that is reasonably similar to Quicken in style of use. My hunch is that Skrooge should be a rising star - when Skrooge gets its installation under Windows straightforward.

All help gratefully received.

No answers, I see, but I understand it could be too small an interest here or more appropriate elsewhere.

That's OK. I'm not going to keep watch here any longer for replies.