Possible solution to TurboTax dropping Windows 10 support?

[Solar Eclipse]

Hi Folks,

Given the dreadful decision by TurboTax to drop WIndows 10 support for 2025 onward, I wanted to share a thought for any techies on the forum as a possible solution for us Win10 desktop users...

What about creating a portable Windows 11 USB drive?  From what I've read, it seems possible to simply buy a USB drive and use a readily available free 3rd party product to create a bootable, portable Win11 drive that can be plugged into an existing Win10 PC and run Win11.  Then install TurboTax on that Win11 platform.  This would leave us Win10 PC users intact for another year  (or more) without having to purchase new PC's or risk upgrading existing machines to Win11, as Microsoft will continue to support security updates for Win10.

Thoughts?

SE

[robtm]

I'm not a techie so this is just my opinion. I don't think this would work. Windows 11 is more than a software upgrade. It depends on hardware features that most Windows 10 computers don't have. If your Windows 10 computer supports Windows 11 then you can just install it. Otherwise you can use online TT for 2025 taxes on your Windows 10 system. If you try installing Windows 11 on a flash drive, reply back to this thread and let us know how your idea works or not.

[Mike9241]

it might work but the caveat is that hacking the registry probably is needed so the check for TPM 2.0, CPU model and OS version are not checked.  another potential issue is that apps installed under w10 may fail to work while running w11.   Another option is dual boot drives one drive w10 one w11 but the w11 registry will need to be hacked if the system does not meet w11 requirements. 

[Solar Eclipse]

Yes, dual boot approach yields similar outcome, but the Win11 on USB approach is much easier and less invasive, and almost any user could do it, not much technical ability required.  I'd post a link to an article I found on how to do it, but I'm not sure if the forum rules allow?

Ultimately I hope TurboTax comes to it's senses and allows the 2025 product to continue to run on Win10. Between no longer including a CD with the product, jacking up prices year after year, changing parts of the UI to look like a phone app and now dropping Win10, all this is going to permanently impact the bottom line when customers leave, never to return.  At the present rate I suspect at some point in the future we'll encounter the ultimate ignorant decision of forcing everyone to the online version.  Good luck with this business strategy.