How to get QB to stop asking me to log into my Intuit Account

Yes Please tell me how to turn this off.   We are a CPA Firm and a Pro Advisor.   We do not want this annoying step.   Most of our clients want to work on Desktop and not QB - online.  And don't want to sign up with a quickbooks account.   Please get rid of this.   We have purchased your software since the appx 2003.  And we have never had this issue before.

Please get rid of it.   We have our own computer security programs.

thank you for your info, much appreciated.

This might help. It seems to have stopped QuickBooks from asking us to log into our client's Intuit accounts when using their files on our systems:

We've had very good results with this solution, using details first posted on the community by MasterBlaster

How to Stop QuickBooks Desktop Advertisements & Crashes

I've been following this thread for nearly two years now. It's been frustrating that Intuit has [quietly] refused to solve the problem the way we'd like, and it has been absolutely surreal how many times an Intuit support person has jumped in to "help", clearly without having paid any attention to our descriptions of the issue, giving us obvious-nonsense boilerplate that logging in gives us better security, etc.

Let's think through parts of that again:
1. They appear to have picked up on just a few key words in our "questions", and not comprehended the rest.
2. They responded with pre-written but unhelpful boilerplate which couldn't possibly help because it was chosen with no comprehension of the problem we described.

We've been talking to bots all this time!

I recall a few responses which appeared to involve actual humans, but those have been exceptions and not the rule.

.One data point other users might benefit from:

I recently had to move to a new PC. Had been using the no-longer-supported QB Desktop 2019, so was concerned whether I'd be able to move that to the new PC too.

I had bought that copy of QB from Amazon in 2019, and Amazon still had the original download available to me in my Orders history. That is, I didn't have to purchase it again, just re-download the original purchase and keep the same key.

I ran the installation, being careful not to accept any updates at all. It seems to be running just fine now, despite a one-time warning that my company file had been edited in a later version of QB. There are no prompts to log in! I can't use the Bank feeds any more (because 2019 is unsupported), but can limp along without that until I wind the company down and retire in a few years.

It does not work>

The steps you presented to stop asking to sign up for an Intuit account don't work

I am yet again angered by QuickBooks Desktop 2019 requirement to "sign in to your Intuit Account". My usual gripe is that such action provides ZERO benefit to me and I totally reject the cover-up claim that it provides "Better control and protection of data".

My specific complaint this time is with yet another instance of the sign-in dialogue being non-functional. After filling in my account ID (because I am forced to do so), I clicked the Continue button . . . and nothing happens. I can see the button depressing when I press the mouse button, but the screen does not change.

The dialog offers only two other controls. One is a grayed-out Cancel button which also does nothing. The other is a link to "Why do you need an Intuit Account?". At least the latter does something, although it's laughably useless. Clicking the link opens Internet Explorer. Yes, you got it: IE 11 which Microsoft "retired and is officially out of support" as of June 15, 2022. Intuit even acknowledges this fact; the screen that was supposed to tell me why I needed an account reads "For Security, Intuit does not support this browser".

I am familiar with this nonesense as a result of my first joining this robust and on-going complaint thread several years ago. At that time and after MUCH nonsensical, misdirective, and patronizing advice from The Intuit Team, I learned that the problem could be resolved by clearing the IE cache. This was the only useful response I received from the corporate experts.

Returning to now a because this sign-in dialog is modal, the only recourse I have at this point is to kill QuicBooks with Task Manager. (Oh, yeah, while QuickBooks is sitting there with its login screen open, Task Manager reports that it's consuming 75 - 100% of my CPU!!)

Upon restarting QuickBooks, it puts up a dialog titled "Internet Security Levels Are Set Too High" -- there's that IE thing again -- and opens an IE dialog to manage Inernet Properties. I reset the properties to Default and QuickBooks eventually allowed me to open the company file with no further incident.

After two hours of aggravation and stomach acid, I have three requests of Intuit:

1. Completely remove from QuickBooks 2019 any usages or references to Internet Explorer. (And don't give me any crap about buying a current version.)

2. Remove the requirement for logging into my Intuit Account. Because I make no use of ANY Internet services, it provides me no benefit and only serves to allow Intuit to monitor my activity, which is none of its goddam business.

3. Cease with the "I'm here to help" attitude of your online response team. Whenever I see that, I conclude immediately that the responder is completely lacking in knowledge of how to help with my problem.

I would close with "thank you very much", but I have no confidence that Intuit will pursue any of these requests.

I get so frustrated with this repeated request.  Never mind that the heading says that ask every 89 days to protect my account.  I am not online.  And according to my notes, today was my last request:  06/05/23.  Before that was 05/26/23; Before that 03/24/23;  before that in February.  If they can't keep up with 89 days, how am i to trust that they are not trying to access my system for nefarious purposes rather than protecting me. UGH!

If I check "Don't allow any applications to access this company file", will it affect my payroll updates?