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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.

Bitwarden has a browser extension for all of the main browsers. I haven't installed ATX yet so I haven't tried to make it work, but I'm hoping it does because Bitwarden also manages passwords and passkeys. I haven't done anything with passkeys but it looks like the way we are headed. Yay for no more passwords! https://bitwarden.com/download/

My favorite is when the download the PDF of their brokerage 1099 and instead of sending me the PDF they print it out NOT ROTATED to landscape, so it's tiny. That's just stupid.

Do you mean the Status column? If so, the answer is yes. As far as I know, all columns roll over.

You must have excellent eyesight or really good glasses. I didn't know they still made monitors that small!

Seriously old school. I noticed that I was always holding the paper documents up and typing with one hand, so scanning the documents to read on screen was a no brainer for me. Also, no longer needed a magnifying glass or good lighting.

It is a somewhat higher end video card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060, but any video card with 3 or more ports will do.

Just upgraded from three 24 inch monitors to three 32 inch curved monitors. Measured horizontally, it's just shy of 7 feet of screen space, because screens are measured horizontally. My eyes are so happy! (Excuse the mess!)