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Many people have multiple TT accounts and forget how to access them.  Log out of the account you are in now.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/many-intuit-accounts-turbotax/L9aVfKS1Z_US_en_US?uid=ll5g6zcx Account Recovery     Or did you use the desktop version of TurboTax?  If so, the files are on your own hard drive or any backup device you used like a flash drive.

@AmeliesUncle wrote: @CuriousK wrote:  A judge ordered she live with me full-time at the beginningof the year.    As in January 1st, or after January 1st?   It sounds like your parental rights were terminated, so in the view of the law, unfortunately your child isn't considered your child.  Does that sound right?   I am not aware that a state court order terminating parental rights has any effect on the determination of qualifying child dependent under federal law.  I would appreciate references if you have them.     A fast search found this case, which the web site has titled "Parents Whose Rights Were Terminated Denied Dependency Deductions."  However, the decision in the case does not follow the headline.  The children in that case lived with their aunt for all of 2015 (the year in question). The tax court specifically wrote "We need not determine, however, whether they could be qualifying children or qualifying relatives under section 152(a) by parsing the complicated definitions in section 152. Petitioners conceded in their pretrial memorandum that the children “were placed with * * * [their aunt] in 2014 and have lived with her since.”   In other words, the children were disqualified by normal operation of the usual rules, so the court did not even have to consider the effect of the termination of parental rights. https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/court-documents/court-opinions-and-orders/parents-whose-rights-were-terminated-denied-dependency-deductions/288bg   I am curious if you know of other cases. 

@Olivia342 wrote: That’s definitely a complex situation, and it’s great you’re being careful. Generally, the person who provides more than half of the child’s support and with whom the child lives most of the year is the one eligible to claim them as a dependent. However, since legal custody and adoption rights are involved, it’s best to get written clarification from the court order or consult a tax professional or family law attorney before filing—just to ensure everything aligns with both IRS rules and your custody agreement. I'm sorry Olivia, but this is wrong on multiple points.  The statement that "the person who provides more than half of the child’s support and with whom the child lives most of the year is the one eligible to claim them as a dependent" mixes up two different rules, and the "lives more than half the year with" only applies to certain blood relatives and legally appointed foster parents, not other persons.  And the IRS will not accept clarification from a state court -- the IRS follows federal tax law, and the Supremacy Clause means the IRS can ignore any state court ruling, custody order, or clarification.   A consultation with an attorney who understands federal tax law may be helpful, but the rest of your answer does not apply.  

That’s definitely a complex situation, and it’s great you’re being careful. Generally, the person who provides more than half of the child’s support and with whom the child lives most of the year is the one eligible to claim them as a dependent. However, since legal custody and adoption rights are involved, it’s best to get written clarification from the court order or consult a tax professional or family law attorney before filing—just to ensure everything aligns with both IRS rules and your custody agreement.

Intuit doesn't list specific H/W requirements other than min recommended memory so I doubt they care or check for TPM etc, just Win 11 or not, however you got there.   https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/cd-download/tta-system-requirements/   But hacking Turbo to run on Win 10 is probably the worst possible solution to this issue imo, as you will be invalidating support from Intuit (on top of an unsupported OS).  Maybe it'll work fine but any issues during your tax process with updates, forms, e-filing etc you'll be on your own.

Hi,    Thanks for the reply. Not sure what you mean by multiple accounts, I don't have multiple accounts. I only have one 1099-INT. My $88 is reported on the tax form as it is on my 1099 minus the 34 cents. 

The cents won't be material, the issue they are reporting is a whole account missing entirely (e.g. your $88 wasn't reported at all).  It's apparently some issue for certain 1099s that had multiple accounts reported like CDs, likely on multiple pages on the 1099-INT.

Technical arguments about end of technical support and ESU aside, it's really just a business decision by Intuit as they determined there would not be enough demand to make it worth their while to release and support a Win 10 version.  See post from VP below (fwiw).   Desktop Turbotax revenue ($200mil) is only 1% of Intuit's $20bil revenue, they sell 35mil "units" of higher revenue online/live service vs. 4mil users of "low" revenue desktop (incl Mac), so desktop has 10% of the total Turbotax user base for only 5% of the total Turbotax revenue.   Turbotax revenue overall is expected to grow 8% in 2026 while desktop is declining 5%.  etc.   They're also cutting bait on ItsDeductible which only had 100k users, and the Desktop Basic edition.   Clearly they're ok losing hundreds of thousands of users out of a base of 40mil if revenues are growing everywhere else.  For most users who will inevitably be on Win 11 a year from now, it's a choice whether to deal with it in the next few months and keep tax process intact, or spend time changing tax process and then have to upgrade 6 months later anyway.   https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/articles/community-news-announcements/turbotax-windows-10-desktop-software-end-of-life/05/3708302   https://investors.intuit.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1266/intuit-reports-strong-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-fiscal-2025-results-sets-fiscal-2026-guidance-with-double-digit-revenue-growth-and-continued-operating-margin-expansion