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I've never even seen a Brother scanner, but I only buy Brother printers. I lover my color Brother HL-L3280CDW. It has a nice bypass for envelopes, too.

I'm already on 11, have been since last year, but I'm not installing 24H2 until after tax season, and only then if I stop seeing daily articles about problems it's causing.

Same.

Be careful with your optional upgrades. No sense inviting trouble during the busy season. https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/01/23/microsoft-is-now-officially-rolling-out-windows-11-24h2-on-windows-10-as-an-optional-upgrade/amp/

That seems nigh impossible. I just checked my phone and computer and they are two seconds off.

I'm surprised that works. So you can use either authenticator and they both show the same code at the same time?

Also, I have a password on my authenticator, so they'd need to guess that to even get the code. And my authenticator is an extension in one of my browsers, so they'd have to find it first.

It probably is less secure, especially if you put a shortcut to your authenticator on your desktop, but any hacker would also need to break your ATX password, and 3 wrong guesses would lock them out and require a password reset, so I'm not worried about it.

No because you can't have two different authenticator setups. The last one you do will be the only one that works. But I do agree that a desktop authenticator is superior to a phone based one because you can copy/paste the 6 digit code into ATX.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jayadkisson/2025/01/23/us-supreme-court-allows-beneficial-ownership-interest-reporting-to-go-forward/

Chaos is the order of the day.

Probably just delete the existing link and set up a new one.

https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2007/nov/giftingofaremainderinterestinahome.html

Yes, you should paste it into a text document, and save it.

You can't copy and paste from your phone to your computer, because those are two separate devices. Just manually enter the code on your computer.

Restart your computer. Pause your malware protections. End all unnecessary tasks, and stop them from auto-starting on boot. Smudge your entire office.

Are you installing it as stand alone on both your main computer and your laptop? Just spitballing here. Your best bet might be a different authenticator, but having two separate standalone installs might be the problem, but I would think having two different computer names would work.

Here's the Firefox extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auth-helper/

I used chat support today and the first tier joined the chat in less than 2 minutes. They quickly realized that my issue with a 1065 was beyond them and handed me off to a higher tier person, and we created a case in short order. I was able to override my way around the issue, which was good because the tech said it would take several days to resolve a 1065 calculation error. The error is on the 1065 K1 Cap Acct Summary tab. What it's doing is adding twice the amount of cash contributions entered on Sch K of the 1065 to current income instead of subtracting it once.

I used the add-on for Firefox browser and it has an option to import an image of the QR code, so I used Windows built in Snipping Tool to capture the QR code from ATX, saved it to my ATX folder, then uploaded it to the authenticator add-on. It was mostly straightforward.

You could still put the ATX server on your server and only install ATX on the two computers that access it. They would be installed as workstation only. Or you could install the ATX server on one of the two computers and share the database folder to the other user. In which case the server computer would be Server/Workstation and the other computer would be workstation only.

Always best to file an extension.

A timely article on passkeys. https://www.howtogeek.com/windows-to-replace-passwords-with-passkeys/

Printing always to PDF then printing always from PDF to paper, ensures that you always have a PDF copy.

For now. Passkeys are supposed to eliminate all that.