Turbotax Home and Business 2024 Keeps Asking Me To Activate

[XrayDoc88]

What is going on?  I have already activated TT on one computer.  I have already filed two federal and two state tax returns.  Sporadically, when I try to open the program, it prompts me to activate it again, and it uses one of my 5 activations!  Currently my one computer says that the program has been activated on 2 devices which is bogus.  What should I do to stop this nonsense?

In case this matters, I have two homes with pfSense Community Edition routers at both homes.  I also have a site-to-site IPsec VPN connecting the two homes.

[VolvoGirl]

Make sure your computer is the same way when you originally installed it. Like with no flash drives plugged in or plugged in if one was. Even a printer plugged in or not. It asked me again so I just closed the program and took out a flash drive that was plugged in and tried again. It worked.

Asks for Activation at every launch
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-topics/help/turbotax-2019-requests-license-activation-at-every...

[XrayDoc88]

Thanks for the link, but if I try those suggestions one by one in order, I will exhaust all five of my activations unless the first two work.  The program has already used 3 of my 5 activations on one computer.  I really think this is an Intuit Turbotax problem that should be fixed.  I don't have any problems with other programs, i.e. Microsoft 365, Adobe Photoshop, etc., prompting me to reactivate every time I launch their program.  Clearly, the system that Intuit has setup is flawed!

Any suggestions how I can recover my two unnecessarily used activations?

[TomK2023]

Please contact TurboTax Customer Service: at: 800-446-8848.

[scondas]

This just happened to me too for TT Deluxe!

[scondas]

I did add a flash drive to an open USB port.  Adding a flash drive causes TT to think it's a different computer?

[BrittanyS]

The flash drive can cause an issue with the computer activation.  Having a flash drive or even a SD card can show a change in the computer which may lead to the software confusing this as a new computer.  If you are having issues, you can contact us here for assistance.

@scondas