Method 1: Talk to your IT guy/gal, about creating a virtual PC for the old Quickbooks PC that can be accessed on your network..                 

Method 2:  I 've been using BW since the mid 90s and at the end of a fiscal year, just before "closing the books" for the year  , I make an EOY backup data file for each company. There is a special USER/PASSWORD created to access these files to prevent users for altering the data or "working" all day in the wrong data set.

Example    ACME2022 ( would include all of 2022,2021, 2020 )   - we keep 3 years of data and 5 years GL

                   ACME2021 ( would have 2021,2020, 2019)

                   ACME2020 ( would have 2020,2019,2018) etc

Prior to the pandemic, I kept 8 EOY files per company "active" , but now i'm only doing 5, the users can access but I have data files named all the way back to ACME2010

In our case we, we typically only get requests for about 5 years old "what did I order on my last order" or warranty

Why 3 years of data verse all 5 years that BW can ?  

 1.We have hit some of the limits in Vendors Invoices (max 12,000)

2. Data access speed and just "junk" clean up. Customers come and go,

I hope your server has been specified to be robust and fast. RAID 5 or 6 with SSDs & Multicore Processor.

Method 1: Talk to your IT guy/gal, about creating a virtual PC for the old Quickbooks PC that can be accessed on your network..                 

Method 2:  I 've been using BW since the mid 90s and at the end of a fiscal year, just before "closing the books" for the year  , I make an EOY backup data file for each company. There is a special USER/PASSWORD created to access these files to prevent users for altering the data or "working" all day in the wrong data set.

Example    ACME2022 ( would include all of 2022,2021, 2020 )   - we keep 3 years of data and 5 years GL

                   ACME2021 ( would have 2021,2020, 2019)

                   ACME2020 ( would have 2020,2019,2018) etc

Prior to the pandemic, I kept 8 EOY files per company "active" , but now i'm only doing 5, the users can access but I have data files named all the way back to ACME2010

In our case we, we typically only get requests for about 5 years old "what did I order on my last order" or warranty

Why 3 years of data verse all 5 years that BW can ?  

 1.We have hit some of the limits in Vendors Invoices (max 12,000)

2. Data access speed and just "junk" clean up. Customers come and go,

I hope your server has been specified to be robust and fast. RAID 5 or 6 with SSDs & Multicore Processor.