As others have noted - using or not using thumb drives, mapped drives, OneDrive, GoogleDrive, Vault, etc for TurboTax to store files or not has NOTHING to do with this problem of reactivation.
It is the appearance of these drives vs. not during startup of TurboTax compared with original activation - that delta that the program thinks it is not the same computer (which is idiotic) and asks for reactivation.
