[lug] Escaping TurboTax to Open Source?

Elyse M. Grasso emgrasso at data-raptors.com
Wed Mar 28 18:39:22 MDT 2007


On Wednesday 28 March 2007 5:32 pm, Elyse M. Grasso wrote:

> Anyone have ideas for getting into a Win 2K Pro machine that hasn't been 
used 
> in a year? I've tried every password I can think of. And I think I need Win 
> 2K actually running: a Linux livedisk with an NTFS module will just get at 
> the TurboTax proprietary format file. I don't think I saved a pdf.
Thanks to everyone for the advice. One of the passwords I tried finally worked 
for an admin userid, and I changed the other passwords to something plain 
vanilla. I think that machine is getting retired permanently real soon now: 
the one app that wouldn't run in a vmware windows image has now been 
superseded.

Of course, the old printer that is the only one I have WIN2k drivers for has 
also not been used in a year, and is not happy about it., but I managed to 
pull a pdf of last year's forms and smb them across to my linux box.

 I think that machine is getting retired permanently real soon now: the one 
app that wouldn't run in a vmware windows image has now been superseded.
-- 
Elyse Grasso

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