I needed to reinstall my Quickbooks Premiere 2021 on a new computer yesterday... no available download on QB site :-( But, I luckily saved my original download!

And, I came to the newer login enforcement and Active-X script. Again, local file, local account, no payroll or bank. Absolutely no need for the Intuit nanny to have me log in to them and risk my safe data login.

Fortunately the advance firewall block of outgoing TCP port 443 on QB32.exe still works for now.
There NEEDS to be a way for desktop users to work offline from Intuit servers. Please listen Intuit. This thread is over a year old and all you seem to do is avoid the issue at heart.

/Mike