Will 2020 Turbo Tax run in Windows 7

[cliff2310a]

So what!  Windows 7 is still better than window10 and IMO more secure.

[cliff2310a]

Yes you can help! Just allow your customers to make up there own mind and stop being the Gestopo for MS.

Cliff2310

[53ewok53ok]

Will 2020 turbo tax run with Windows 7

[tammy62]

I agree with you.

[tammy62]

This is a bunch of BS. People should not have to upgrade their computers just to run Turbo Tax. Very un-happy

[emptech]

Quick answer, NO, there probably is a way to trick TT to run on Win7 but I have not found the solution.

I cannot stand the idea that TT and Microshaft are forcing us to downgrade to another operating system.  I had to purchase win10, install it on another partition on my laptop's hard drive, and set the computer to dual boot, win7 or win10.   I prefer to use my win7 desktop machine, so I set up the laptop with win10 to recognize my printers on the net and I set it up for remote desktop.

By doing that, I was able to use my win7 box to do my taxes.  I will probably never use win10 again, but it is there if I need it.

Today is May 13th 2021, filing my taxes right now, ugh!

[emptech]

It's not only TT, it's the company Intuit itself.  I've been a user of Quickbooks, since 2008.  I had a hard drive crash and had to reinstall the program from one of the CDs.  I had the installation code but Intuit would not activate the product, as they said it was too old.  The program was backed up along with my data files, but still had to be activated.  I had to go to a pirated copy in order to use the program that I paid for.

[emptech]

So what do you do if you get audited years from now and have to amend your taxes.  If you had the desktop version on CD, you could load it into your computer and take care of business.  So years from now without having the desktop version, you would have to go to Intuit's on-line version and try to get your work done, but then you found out it doesn't support forms.  What if the company should go out of business and there is no more on-line version.

Anything but win8, 10, or else.

[DoninGA]

Well, I am running Windows 10 with all the latest releases.  And I have the TurboTax software installed from tax year 2009 thru 2020.  The IRS only holds tax returns for the last seven years so it would be no problem to amend any of those tax years.

I also backed up all the installation files, all the tax data files plus have all the forms, schedules and worksheets for each tax year as a PDF on a USB drive.

[jckgales11]

I agree, I'm pretty upset. First I somehow clicked the auto renewal last year, unaware that I did until I seen on bank statement....so I thought ok it's paid so I'm all set. Well spent hour trying to download only to go in circles, then called, didn't wait so got a callback and no one came on line for 13 minutes! I hung up and tried again to download. Never got the CD. Finally called again spoke with a real nice lady but didn't get it resolved. Thought I could upgrade to windows 8.1 but the extra cost and my computer still didn't meet the minimum requirements. I am now expecting a complete refund almost 200.00. Oh and have to file for an extension and find someone to do my taxes. 4 hours later I'm done with them. I hope they refund every person this happened to.

[jnmunsey]

Ok folks, I found a solution that works. It's not for the faint of heart, however, but if you have some computer skills, you can do it. I have successfully installed Turbotax Premier 2020 on my Windows 7 Ultimate PC. It may be too late for most, but for those of us in Texas who have until June 15 and still haven't filed, here you go.

I found the solution in the comments of this page:
https://gist.github.com/scorpius/b19023b74754bd8f55da067070d67ed5

see below for comment

I won't elaborate on the instructions below. If you are tech savvy enough you will be able to figure it out, otherwise you are best off getting someone to do it for you. There are at least a couple steps that may confuse the lay person. Good luck. Feel free to reply and if I am able I will help.

Oh and yes, it's complete BS that Intuit has chosen to restrict this edition from working on Windows 7 as it works perfectly. There is no excuse.

Here is the comment:

Not sure if different distributions (web vs CD, different editions) have different installers. The TurboTax 2020/TurboTax 2020 Installer.exe does an additional check for OS version. You don't need to patch the setup.exe first if you have this installer, though you may have to manually install Prerequisites/dotNetFx452_setup.exe if you don't already have a .NET 4.5 or greater installation.

You can patch out the TurboTax 2020 Installer.exe check with the fantastic dnSpy.

1. Install and launch dnSpy
2. Make a copy of TurboTax 2020 Installer.exe for backup
3. Drag original exe into the Assembly Explorer pane of dnSpy (this is the pane on the left)
4. Browse to TurboTax 2020 Installer/TurboTax 2020 Installer.exe/Intuit.Tax.Installers.Setup.Common/OSInfo
5. Press Ctrl-Shift-E with cursor on IsSupportedOs() or right click method and choose Edit method (C#)
6. Change line 11 bool result = false to bool result = true, or just replace whole method body with return true
7. Press Compile
8. NEXT STEP WILL OVERWRITE YOUR ORIGINAL EXE, MAKE SURE YOU MADE A BACKUP IN STEP 2
9. Press Save All (Ctrl-Shift-S) and press OK
10. Run TurboTax 2020 Installer.exe

Note: I have Premier, it installed as Basic and asked for a license key to activate.

[meagain1]

Truly Intuit is once again believing that my network and my hardware is there to service Intuit.   The kernel code to run TT2020 is the same as 2019, 2018, 2017, etc.  There is no valid reason to force a purchase from Microsoft unless Microsoft is including compensation that is not noted by Intuit. 

This will apparently be my last purchase of TurboTax after over 2 decades of use. 

Congratulations to a crack marketing team.

[meagain1]

"DaveF1006

Expert Alumni

‎April 29, 2021 8:32 PM

The reason why Turbo Tax will not run on a Windows 7 platform is that Microsoft no longer offers software support for Windows 7."

What a bunch of bull.  You must be compensated by Microsoft and Intuit.

I still have an extended support agreement with Microsoft until 2025 for the  Windows 7 machines in my shop.  At the end of that agreement I may change to another Microsoft OS or just shut down, but it is my choice. 

Each vendor can select their target audience and apparently Intuit is looking for online subscription customers as their future.    They have already driven me away from Quickbooks payroll and annual software upgrades and now they are driving me away from Turbotax. 

[meagain1]

The reason why Turbo Tax will not run on a Windows 7 platform is that Microsoft no longer offers software support for Windows 7."

What a bunch of bull.  You must be compensated by Microsoft and Intuit.

I still have an extended support agreement with Microsoft until 2025 for the  Windows 7 machines in my shop.  At the end of that agreement I may change to another Microsoft OS or just shut down, but it is my choice. 

Each vendor can select their target audience and apparently Intuit is looking for online subscription customers as their future.    They have already driven me away from Quickbooks payroll and annual software upgrades and now they are driving me away from Turbotax. 

[RG37]

This continues to show what a bunch of bullies these tech companies have become. All conspiring to get us all to spend spend spend...  SHAME ON YOU intuit!

[Mike9241]

MS support may not include patches for defects in its OS.  But MS may have screwed itself with W11.  supposedly it won't install on boxes running 7TH and earlier generation intel processors and any without a second generation TPM.