This is very interesting as TurboTax support had me return the 2 different versions of Turbo Tax 2020 I had purchased from Amazon saying they were boot legged because I had the same issue with them asking for an Activation code multiple times. Today the issue reappeard on TurboTax 2019 which I tried to open to look at a form from last year. Unplugging external storage did resolve the issue today. I had tried to launch a last year’s 2019 taxes stored on the external drive and ended up with the activation screen. I also observed this issue seems to resurface after a Windows 10 update. Obviously, this is a bug in the TurboTax software that is causing this issue. They need to address this.
