sometimes.  It tends to act weird like that if I have other things running n the background.   Do you have a cloud backup running all the time or anything else that loads up before ProSeries?  I feel like PS dosnt allocate resources very efficiently.

Thank you for the response.  I do not have any backups to a cloud and if I check the Task Manager it shows nothing else running.  Since the software is on my computer I do not think my VPN is an issue.  Thank you again and I am looking forward to filing a few tax returns on the season opening Monday.

I believe if automatic updates is on, it checks for updates before you can sign in.

I have tried to automatic updates off but I get an error saying I am not the administrator.  It will not let me do it.  I would rather go on every day and do the update myself.  I am a one person operation so not sure what I need to do to call myself the administrator.  Have you been able to turn that off?

Rainman1966, pending updates will be applied while launching ProSeries, hence the delay.
You can turnoff automatic updates by running ProSeries as administrator, right click and run as administrator..