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February 5, 2026
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Beyond FRUSTRATED! I need help! Tech support said they can't help me. :(

  • February 5, 2026
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2 out 7 computers suddenly cannot open any version of Lacerte.  Tech support told me yesterday that they have exhausted all of their troubleshooting and that I needed an IT person.  This is what happened - On Friday one computer installed the 2025 Lacerte from the network taxsetup.exe. She had 2024 open and had been using it. After she installed the 2025 and went to open it she received this message - We are unable to sign you in. There may be an issue with your system configuration. For more help, contact customer support and reference code 25625. I uninstalled & reinstalled, cleared cache, emptied temp folder & app data folder. After restarting PC 2024 would also not open. 2023 would not open. Ended up calling support. We worked on it. While I worked with support my coworker logged into another computer and was able to open 2024. 2025 had not been installed on that PC yet. All the while this is going on 5 other coworkers were working in 2025 with no problem. I then decided to open 2022 thinking the auto logging may be causing an issue. 2022 opened then I was able to open 2025. Problem "fixed" case closed.

Monday I went to install 2025 on the other PC and got the same message and now 2024, 2023 and 2022 will not open. I also have one other PC that was working doing the same thing. I worked 2 more days with Lacerte support when they said it was an IT issue. I called in an IT person and he couldn't get passed the message after again uninstalling/reinstalling then he did the following-1) Removed the network providers security filtering 2)eliminated the network providers DNS and routed through Google and cloudfare 3)removed 3rd party security suite 4)white listed the app in the default windows firewall 5)white listed the domain & IP for pf.intuit.com 6)switched the default browser in the event the system uses web based authentication 7)uninstalled AVG security 8)re-loaded the operating system 9) ensured the operating system, drivers, and firmware are on the latest firmware. All while doing this 5 other PCs are not impacted. All of these PCs are running Windows 11Pro and are brand new. I set them up in December. I need help please!! 

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abctax55
Level 15
February 5, 2026

Welcome to my colleague's hell.

She's been dealing with this for 10 days plus, with the same "we can't help you" from support.

She was told (IT dude, I think) that it is a "profile" issue.

She's sorta/kinda found a work-around by uninstalling/re-installing the program.

She's living in terror every time there's an update.

Wish I could help more, and if she gets a resolution I will post back.

HumanKind... Be Both
Level 10
February 5, 2026

Wish I could help too.

She's living in terror every time there's an update.

I used to live that way. Now that I use the Hosting product, I feel confident. Problems are very rare.

abctax55
Level 15
February 5, 2026

@strongsilence 

Those of us in rural areas, with power outages due to weather AND with less than stellar internet services can't really use hosting.  YMMV

HumanKind... Be Both
New Member
July 3, 2026

I had solve my own mystery of can not launch Lacerte after network installation grabbing taxsetup.exe install. It has to do with our own company file server. I started having this problem since last fall 2025 and finally over half year later, I solved it myself! If you got Exception EFOpenError in module ftl290.bpl at 001E2DF. Cannot open file “X server drive\LACERTE\XXtax\OPTIONXX\RIGHTS.IWS”. Access is denied. It might had something to do with the new Windows and its updates. I had no problems with any OLDER windows. It has something to do with the network security in Windows preventing things.

You need to reinstall from the server for any tax year of Lacerte having problems using the taxsetup.exe. Override the force installation to LOCAL drive (if Lacerte tech had told you to). After all the reinstallation grabbing from the server drive, you need to disconnect the server drive and remap it using an account with all administrative rights to the server. Username of an administrative account and password to get into your server drive. Then you need to launch all of the Lacerte tax years. 

If you don’t want the user to have full rights to your server, you can then change the access back to lower level access username. Disconnect the server drive and remap network drive and reconnect the computer with the server again.

This method solved my problem. Hopefully will be useful to anyone out there frustrated with this problem.