I found out that the USB flash drive from which I installed TurboTax2020 MUST be plugged in to avoid the activation demand from TurboTax. Why did I install TurboTax from a USB flash drive? Because my new laptop does not have a DVD/CD drive, duh. I had to pop the TurboTax2020 disc into an old machine that has a DVD/CDROM drive, created an ISO from the CD, saved the ISO to the flash drive, then plug the flash drive into my new laptop and install TurboTax2020 from there. Now the same flash drive must be plugged every single time I want to use TurboTax2020. A damned bug from TurboTax.
