Insights uses information from your Money file, so be sure that your information in Money is current. If your accounts are set up online, you may not have updated information from your financial institutions. Open your Money file and download your updated account information. The next time you open Insights, it will display the updated account information.

To help keep the information in Insights current, you can have Money automatically update your financial information from your financial institutions. For more information, see About automatic online updates.

To help protect your financial information, when you store your password in Insights so that Insights can access the information in your Money file, your password is not automatically stored in Money. If you have enabled automatic online updates in Money, you will also need to store the passwords for your financial institutions in Money so that Money can download your account information. To store your passwords, open Money. On the Tools menu, point to Internet Updates, and then click Update Now. Type the passwords for each account you want to update online, and select the Remember my passwords check box.

If you have more than one Money file on your computer, Insights will show the information from the last file that was opened. Open the Money file for which you want Insights to display information, and then reopen Insights.

To use Insights, you must first set up your Money file with the information you want to track. Bills Insights uses information from your Bills summary, Spending Insights uses information from your budget and Spending Tracker, and Cash Flow Insights uses information from your accounts.

If you are using a Money password or a Windows Live ID to help protect your file, you may not see your information in Insights because Insights cannot access your Money file. To see information in Insights, you will need to provide your password each time Insights needs to access your file. You can also store your password in Insights so that it can access your file automatically.