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Tax software usually doesn’t support out of date OSs that are not getting Security updates through the end of tax season.
Tax software is bound by Internal Revenue Service mandates and will only certifty that they run on supported software.
Will it run? Yes. Will the vendors declare it can? No.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady
Important system requirements update
Microsoft has ended support for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012, so the Lacerte 2022 software will no longer support those platforms.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady
Browse down the cd to find the actual setup file . This will typically not have the “check for supported OS” and then you can get around it
Susan Bradley Patch Lady
Sometimes the xml file associated with the setup executable needs a tweak too dependant on installation configuration of the program.
Drill down time IF required, good luck!
This is a closely related question:
What Tax Software for Tax years 2017 – 2022 from a trustworthy source and DOES NOT DO ANYTHING IN or WITH the (any) cloud before I hit “send” and is available for Windows 8.1 or common Linux distros?
Tax years 2017 – 2022 is important as I may have to refile for some past years. I do not want any of my personal information (especially tax or other financial information) to be floating around some tax organization’s or tax preparation company’s or any other cloud-based storage; at least not until I decide to send info for 2022 to the IRS. I do not believe submitting tax returns (or revisions thereof) is allowed for prior years…but am not sure of that.
I seem to recall trying to find Tax Return Preparation software a few years ago that ran on Windows8.1 but did not require me to do anything online until I had the return completed and was ready to send it.
All of the “Free Federal Tax Software for 2017(?)[whatever that past year was] expected me to start plugging in numbers online. I do not mind downloading the software anonymously, but regardless of whose free software I am using, I do not want them to have a clue as to who I am or what numbers I fill in on the forms unless and until I decide to go ahead and file it electronically using their software.
Is it even possible to pick up free Federal Tax Return Preparation software online and then use it offline to run or recheck the numbers without selling your soul to the provider of the tax software? I think I can still go to the Post Office or certainly an IRS office and pick up all the IRS Forms I might need and fill them out at home in private.
If I was using H&R Block’s software, could I just download it, do my return offline, then if the numbers required me to file an amended return, just sent it to the IRS via the ‘Net with the H&R Block software? I am fairly sure that electronic submissions must be send via an authorized tax preparer (or software provided by same.)
I happen to live in one of the closer to perfect states that has no Income Tax which means there are several programs that will allegedly allow me to do my Federal tax return for free (with State tax returns costing extra for unlucky folks who do not live in places such as FL or TX. 🙂
I do have a copy of Lotus 1-2-3 (from SmartSuite 9.82) released in 2009 I think. Decades ago, when Lotus was still in business before getting squished by a greedy, brutally monopolistic M$, I was earning a lot of my income writing financial planning software as part of a set of add-on programs built into 1-2-3 spreadsheets that worked with the templates I also wrote to do tax estimates for given years — so I generally just used my own product to do my returns. After all, the financial planners, tax preparers, and other customers/clients who bought this software seemed to trust the results of my software.
The problem came about after I went back to finish a B.S. in Comp. Sci. then on to grad school to get about as far as I needed in a PhD Program in CompSci to turn in a thesis for a token M.S. degree after two years of work (I put off actually turning in that thesis after writing it over twenty years later) and did get an MBA the following two years since my Doctoral Thesis Advisor seemed like he might want a graduate slave to do scut work such as porting bench-marking software from a Cray2 to some super-minicomputers his grant money had been wasted on. I may still finish the PhD now that I like in a better place, but that is not near the top of my priority list for a few months, at the very least.
Being able to do my taxes with current software without sharing the information with anyone except the IRS would be very nice.
Whose software is the IRS suggesting people use these days?
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Does Win8.1 have a Compatibility Mode for Win10 or Win11?
Tax software will no longer work on Win8.1 and earlier because MS has stopped supporting all those too.
In my experience, it’s the installer that has a OS checker. If you go around the automatic installer and find the software installer that is typically in a setup folder UNDER on the cdrom.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady
best thread on upgrading my Windows 8.1 PC to Windows 10. I don’t want to go to Windows 11.
Is your Windows 8.1 hardware Windows 11 compatible ?
If not, you have nothing to worry and update to 10 via Windows 10 Update Assistant
Or
Download an ISO copy of Windows 10 (home/Pro) according to your current version from
HeiDoc.net and upgrade (open the ISO file and run setup.exe).
Remember to create a full image copy of your current system to external HDD.
* upgrade to Windows 10 is still free.
The W10 upgrade uses the existing W8.1 key and stores the registration on the MS servers. You do not need to do anything.
cheers, Paul
When I reran the MediaCreate tool, it got a little further and then chocked with the same error message.
Download the ISO from HeiDoc.net
do I need to put everything back to a one-partition system (things like Desktop, Downloads etc. back where they start out on C:\)
If you moved Windows system folders like documents, downloads, music, pictures.. to D drive you better move them back.
I never use these folders on C: and created my own on D:.
Disconnect from the Internet (Lan and wi-fi) and run the upgrade locally (no updates during upgrade).
After successful upgrade create a full image copy. Than install Nov. feature/security updates.
Disconnect from the Internet.
Is your Win 8.1 fully patched ?
Which version of Windows 10 ISO did you download ? From which source ?
One crucial point : disable any A/V software your are running before upgrading (you are offline so no harm can be done).
Try solutions here
I can’t see a 2 partition system from your image.
I can see one disk and one partition with C on it. The other partitions should not be available to use in Windows.
cheers, Paul
Do you have the rollback log files?
C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\Rollback\setupact.log
C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\Rollback\setupact.err
View them in a text editor to see if it says what failed.
cheers, Paul
Access violation sounds like a permission problem, but it could be a hardware incompatability.
The results on the web suggest running “SFC /scannow” from an admin Command Prompt.
cheers, Paul
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