If you need to switch to the Online version you can transfer from the prior year. Here's How to transfer into the Online version. You need to have the prior year .taxyyyy file on your computer. Expand the link if you used the CD/download last year........

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/entering-importing/help/how-do-i-transfer-last-year-s-return-into-turbotax-online/00/25953

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Win10Sucks

For 2019 and 2020 I had to use the backdoor (extract MSI) method of installing.

It seems with 2021 that no longer works to get TT installed on Win7.

Dear Intuit, rot in the fiery pit. According to CIRN, there are more ACTIVE threats against Windows 10 now than at the peak of Windows 7's worst.

As such your claims of wanting to do this for security are LIES!

Further, since several of your software packages make specific recommendations on what software to upgrade to (ex Windows 10) you become directly responsible for any breaches of those systems that would not have occurred if the system was still running the more secure Windows 7. The reason being you gave professional and technical advice to upgrade to that specific OS.

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emptech

They tried to make windoze xp obsolete. Some were able to keep it going because it was used in some bank machines or kiosks. There were contractual obligations. For some time after MS declared XP obsolete, we were able to continue MS support for some time. If I recall, there was a registry patch that kept it alive.

I suspect that TT makes some kind of system call to find what version of windoze is used, and if it doesn't report back as win8 or above, refuses to run. So, does anybody know if there is a registry patch and what is it?

I have installed win10 on a win7 dual boot system. The ONLY time I bring up win10 (ugh!) is to run TT. Through the years, TT has gotten worse and I would like to move away from it, but stay on the win7 platform.

Jim