Before you start:
- The instructions provided below will remove a state or federal tax formset completely from the ProSeries tax program. Once uninstalled, no tax returns will be able to use the forms that were uninstalled.
- Example: the California individual and New York individual state formsets are uninstalled. New and previously completed tax returns won't be able to complete, view, or file a California or New York state tax return.
- If you want to leave the state or city installed for future use but need to remove it from a tax return, click here.
- This article references default installation paths and uses YY to reference the tax year in 20YY format. C: will always indicate the local drive and X: will always indicate the network drive.
To uninstall a federal or state product from a stand alone install
- Close all ProSeries products.
- In the Windows search enter Control Panel.
- Select Uninstall a program.
- Double-click on the year of ProSeries.
- A list of all installed federal and state products will show.
- Select the federal or state product you want to remove and select Uninstall.
- Open File Explorer.
- Browse to C:\ProWinYY\Updates for ProSeries Professional or C:\BasWinYY\Updates for ProSeries Basic.
- Press CTRL + A to select everything in the Updates folder.
- Press Delete key to clear out the old updates.
- Open ProSeries.
To uninstall a federal or state product from a network install
- Close all ProSeries products.
- On the admin computer open File Explorer.
- Browse to X:\ProNetYY\Updates
- Delete the .inv for the form you are trying to remove.
- For example if you were removing the 1040 delete 1040.inv
- If you were removing the 1120S delete 1120S.inv
- Delete the .rtp and .ver files for the forms you are removing.
- For example if you were removing the 1040 delete wfdipor.rtp and wfdipro.ver
- If you were removing the 1040NR delete wfdnpro.rtp and wfdnpro.ver
- In the Windows search enter Control Panel.
- Select Uninstall a program.
- Double-click on the year of ProSeries.
- A list of all installed federal and state products will show.
- Select the federal or state product you want to remove and select Uninstall.
- Open File Explorer.
- Browse to X:\ProNetYY\_AutoDL20YY_Core.
- Open the prodsel.lyt file in Notepad.
- Remove the entry for the set of forms you just uninstalled. Then close and save the file.
- Repeat steps 6 through 10 on each workstation on the network.
At least one federal product is required to be installed to be able to open ProSeries Professional.