---- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:43:21PM -0600, Paul wrote: > > The copy protection they started using, from macrovision I believe, > > wrote information to the MBR the first time it was installed and would > > only let you re-install it later if it found the signature. So a year > > later if you tried to install to reprint your forms after upgrading your > > hard drive you were out of luck. > > Thats why I switched to TaxCut ... no copy protection at all. > > Same on Intuit, now. They actually listened to people, which maybe ought to > count for *something*. :) > > -- I've successfully ran TaxCut 2004 under wine. When I first installed it and ran it, it complained about not being able find a file. After doing a web search, I found that if you need to start wine in the directory where the taxcut executable resides. The only glitch that I ran into is, after an update it would not automatically restart taxcut. Retrieving and installing the updates had no problems. I also filed the taxes electronically and have received the conformation email the taxes were accepted. -pete
