How do I fix an Invalid license data Reinstall is required error in Visual C 2010 Express

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I ve tried to install Visual C  2010 Express edition onto my PC  but whenever I try to run it  I get a error message      Invalid license data  Reinstall is required    I ve already tried reinstalling it  and the message persists   OS is Vista Home Premium  I already have VC  2008 Express installed

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I get this error only when trying to open older solution files. For instance, I've got VS2013 installed and this error message pops up when I double click on a VS2010 solution file.

Getting rid of it is so simple:

Launch VS2013
Open the old solution file by clicking
"File->Open->Project/Solution..." from the menu (or simply by
pressing Shift+Ctrl+O)
Save the solution with the new format by clicking "File->Save Solution As..." and overwrite the old file.

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To everyone who has internet connection  Don t mingle with your  registry it s just a waste of time  Set your CMOS clock right then  just click on the button that say s  Obtain registry key online  fill  up the form two fields are only required  then the registry key would  show up to your screen then just copy and paste it  then everything  works fine  sorry I can t post any images I still need to earn more points

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Analysis  as per the previous correct note by reece  and the original workaround author   I used ProcessMonitor to see what devenv exe tries to do and fails   Unfortunately  it was attempting to read a number of reg keys which were not under the Licenses node  so it wouldn t have been enough to take ownership of the latter with subinacl   Furthermore  even after taking ownership  the affected keys still yielded  ACCESS DENIED   Doing it as Administrator was equally useless  Plus  Visual Studio didn t fall for any date change nonsense either   Solution - Don t try this at home  D though  I downloaded pstools and ran psexec -i -s regedit to get System privileges  then I changed permissions on the entire HKCR node to allow Everyone to Read   P what can I say  viva el comandante    I want to point out that adding  Everyone  to have read permissions on HKEY Classes Root did fix this issue for me   I am not sure exactly what permission is needed  but this  worked for me      YMMV

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I was stuck for several days with the same problem  Investigating the registry i found several keys in HKCR were i was denied access even as adminstrator  Among these keys were the Licences key  Tried a lot of things to resolve this access problem but could not fix it   Finally i worked around this problem with a reinstall of Windows 7 - choosing the Upgrade option when prompted to choose between upgrade or a fresh install  Had to reinstall video drivers but all my programs and user accounts survived   http   windows microsoft com en-US windows7 Installing-and-reinstalling-Windows-7  After the upgrade i have access to the HKCR Licenses again and Visual Studio 2010 starts as expected

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It was not the clock for me  and all the hours spent re-downloading and reinstalling were a waste of time  except for the last one  of course        Also  for some odd reason  just adding Read permissions to the HKCR node using psexec -i -s regedit did not work by itself   To fix my problem on Windows 7  I made sure  using psexec -i -s regedit  that my login account had full control permission over every node in the registry and that the everyone group had read permission over every node in the registry  and did all of the steps in the following link  rebooting after each step    http   windows microsoft com troubleshootwindows7sp1  This is probably overkill  but after spending 10  hours trying to get this working  I am just happy it works     Good luck

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This may also occur if you are trying to invoke an xml file instead of the exe application

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I have had this EXACT problem with VS2010 Professional Trial   Evaluation download   I can provide clear and concise steps to reproduce    Set your system clock ahead by 1 day  oops   Install the trial software  Set your system clock back to the correct date  Start VS2010  you will receive the vague message indicating  Invalid license data  Reinstall is required     In my case  the resolution was quite simple - set the clock back ahead to the wrong date   The next day  I was able to set the clock back to the correct date and continue using the product   Based on other answers to this question  it would appear there are numerous reasons that you could receive this message   This specific issue is most likely to be encountered by someone with a  virgin  install of Windows since it is not so difficult to set the clock incorrectly when setting up a new computer and then fix it later  and if you fix the clock hours after installing the product  it might be hard to put it all together and realize what happened    Hope this helps someone else

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I met the same problem yesterday And I fixed already  Please follow the steps    Run setup exe again  Change or Remove Microsoft Visual Studio 2010  Upgrade license Key  Enter new license key   Complete    GOOD LUCK

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It appears that this has been reported as a bug  but has been closed as  Not Reproducible   One suggestiong from the Microsoft supporter is to redownload and reinstall      Please try downloading the complete ISO from http   www microsoft com express Downloads  2010-All  mount it as virtual drive  Then execute Visual C  setup from the ISO media and select an option to remove the product  Once the Visual C  has been uninstalled  please try installing it again from the ISO media    It sounds a bit far fetched to me  but you might want to give it a try   If that does not help you  I would suggest that you either post a new bug report to Microsoft or vote to reopen the existing one   I am not sure if how this is possible

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Installing SQL server data tools for visual studio 2010 did it for me  SSDT has an VS2010 IDE along with it  which overwrites the required registry entries  You can find SSDT here

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Believe it or not  I have found cases where this problem occurred due to a build error when the build error was due to an error in xcopy in the pre-build events   We had this problem at a colleges computer  and after trying everything here we set to forget it and fix the error from xcopy  When this was fixed the Visual Studio 2010 shell error stopped popping up  for some reason

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I had this problem when installing a new SQL Server 2012 standalone Server   Cause  When installing SQL Managemnt Tools it will install the VS Shell  It seems like this is all you need but this ist not enough   it actually shows it will install VS  Strangly the path and the application are shown in windows put you can t open them without the error    Fix  You need to also install  SQL Server Data Tools  via Feature Add with the SQL-Server iso  Hope this helps someone    i took me quite a while

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This worked for me on Vista  It s based on work-around at MS  http   connect microsoft com VisualStudio feedback details 520110 invalid-license-data-reinstall-is-required    Download subinacl command line tool http   www microsoft com downloads en confirmation aspx FamilyID e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b amp displaylang en Run these commands  subinacl  subkeyreg HKEY CLASSES ROOT Licenses  setowner everyone subinacl  subkeyreg HKEY CLASSES ROOT Licenses  grant everyone f Start VS 2010 Express again and this time it asks for a license key      On Windows 7 Home I had to run the above commands twice before they worked correctly

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I had this issue but I was able to resolve this by right clicking and using Run as Administrator  This boots up the program just fine

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I have faced this problem when installing the Visual studio 2010 - C  express using the local administrator account  then trying to register the application using another account that doesn t have Admin privileges  due to corporate polices this account can   t edit in the Registry by any means  so suddenly that   s how I figured out how to solve this issue I open VS 2010 as a local administrator then entered the registration key  and it is worked   I don   t understand how do that Microsoft itself didn   t mention this solution or even try hard to investigate or solve this issue

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An another solution I have found to work is the one mentioned Mac by over at SuperUser  https   superuser com questions 651261 how-do-i-fix-an-invalid-license-data-reinstall-is-required-error-in-visual-s  When simply reinstalling the Visual Studio 2010 shell doesn t work  he points out that installing it through SSMS 2010 can solve the problem      I was able to resolve my issue without making any manual changes to   the Windows Registry by installing SQL Server Data Tools 2010  which   is also free and includes the Visual Studio 2010 Shell    You don t have to go through the entire install process  I cancelled the process when it was done installing the shell and it worked our fine

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While none of the above solution worked for me  else than running the application with an other username  Renaming the application folder in  appdata  fixed the porblem for me   C  Users    AppData Roaming Microsoft MS Project

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Background  Visual Studio 2012 Pro installed by Administrator account  As  Joe User   member of Win 7 Users group  but NOT Adminstrators  I got the error message  On reading this forum I concluded this is a generic error message  Steps to fix  As an adminstrator  open HK CLASSES ROOT  Open context menu on the Licenses subkey Select Permissions    Set Full Control for all users   Now log on as  Joe  again  Voila   Next  as Administrator change the permission on HKCR Licenses back to read only for Users   Two hints for developers  If you can develop and run an application as an ordinary user  then presumably your poor clients don t need admin rights to run it either   Don t leak security information in  helpful  error messages  Microsloth are probably following their own advise and giving a vague and unhelpful error message here   I have no idea why changing the permission to FC then back again to the original setting worked  I can only assume the Visual Studio writes something to that key the first time it runs

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I just right-clicked  and opened with Visual Studio XXXX  in my case 2015    Then save it  Done

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My prolem  -VS works fine  but when I create new Solution Setup and Deployment it make Setup file but when I run this Setup file  it say   Invalid license data  Reinstall is required   -subinacl do not work   My PC  -OS Windows 7 64bit  -Visual Studio 2012  My way  -Close Visual Studio -Run regedit  -Pull down HKEY CLASSES ROOT -Looking for Licenses -Right click on Licenses -  click Permissions    -  click Addvanced -  click User you want edit -  click Edit -  choose This key and subkey -  check all Allow  Full Control  Query Value  SetValue  Create Subkey  Enumerate Subkeys  Notyfy  Create Link  Delete  Write DAC  Write Owner  Read Control    -  check Apply these permissions to objects    -  click OK -  click OK -  click OK -  Close Registry Edit -Start VS -Hope this help

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I have the same problem with Windows 7 Pro  Have tried everything suggested by the Microsoft people  including uninstalling  cleaning up  reinstalling both from the web installer and the VS2010 Express iso - with the same result every time   To say it s frustrating is an understatement and the disinterest from Microsoft in fixing what appears to be a common problem  you can find lots of search engine  hits  for the problem  none for a solution  is quite unbelievable   Since this is virtually a virgin Win7 install  the only conclusion is that MS have broken their licesing checks again  why check for a license on a free product     Edit  Following further investigation I have concluded that the advice given by Microsoft is useless and does not attempt to diagnose the problem  It simply assumes a corrupt installation source  I believe that the problem is in fact corrupt permissions ownership of registry keys  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Classes Licenses and subkeys needs to be owned by SYSTEM with admins having full access  On my affected system the owner cannot be displayed and no permissions are shown when viewed by admin    I don t have the definitive fix for this so far  as I cannot adequately edit the permissions for the affected registry keys   Re-installing Windows is an almost certain fix  but also an extremely drastic one

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I had this issue while installing dynamic ax setup in VM  while installing it was showing me to  licence is not valid  Reinstall visual studio shell 2010 version   so i uninstalled the visual studio shell 2010 version and its following component and tried to install again the AX admin it worked

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I had this problem and finally got passed it   I tried the solutions above to no effect    I set my license keys to open permissions  set my clock forward  etc    After two days I gave up     In the end  I installed VS 2012 Express  which could handle VS 2010 solutions but could not compile 2010 code  without a COFF error    After finding this article on requiring VS 2010 to be installed to compile 2010 solution in VS 2012  I reinstalled VS 2010 even though I assumed it wouldn t work on its own   I tried opening 2010 anyway and it worked

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Just happened to me with a new install of Visual Studio 2010 ultimate in a new computer   This new computer had the internal time correctly set  but the date was set to one day late  I installed Visual Studio 2010 with the incorrect date  Then  I noticed of the incorrect date and changed it by sync ing with a NTP server  and from that moment Visual Studio 2010 would not work    so I ll have to stop using Visual Studio 2010 until DateTime Now   installationDate

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If you re here from Google and are experiencing this issue with GFI MailEssentials s config export tool  check to make sure you aren t trying to open WebMon SettingsImporterTool exe xml instead of WebMon SettingsImporterTool exe  If you have  hide common file extensions  enabled  you will see the  exe but not the  xml

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I got the problem when instelled MS SQL 2012 with IngegrationService  the MS Visual Studio 2010  Isolated  was installed from sql installer     This VS returned error   Invalid license data  Reinstall is required    I ve fixed the problem by reinstalling SSDT with MS VS 2012  Integrated  http   msdn microsoft com en-us jj650015

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I just encountered this problem on a virgin install with a system that has a bad clock battery  when I turn off the power  it resets the date time  Syncing to time windows com again allowed me to run VS2010 successfully

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I am using Visual Studio 2013 and I have the same issue but it occurs when I try to open a solution that was made using Visual Studio 2010   The solution for me is to open the solution file   sln   using notepad and change this line      Visual Studio 2010    to this      Visual Studio 2013

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I m having this problem with Visual Studio 2015 installed   ramonsantana over at forum unity3d com had the solution for me  https   forum unity3d com threads if-anyone-is-having-visual-studio-shell-2010-invalid-license-data-reinstall-is-required 298824   Copied here for reference     Use regedit go to HKEY CLASSES ROOT and look for Visual Studio DTE   Since i have Visual Studio 2015 CTP installed i have 3 DTE  one is   VisualStudio DTE  the other Visual StudioDTE 10 0 and   VisualStudio DTE 14 0 Go to VisualStudio DTE 14 0   or whatever   version of Visual studio you have installed  and click CLSID        Copy the   Default  Double click Default and Copy the key inside   now go back to   Visua Studio DTE and double click the Default there and paste the key   you just copied        Almost there       On VisualStudio DTE go to CurVer and   double click the key there to Edit it  Change the 10 0 in the end to   12 0 or 13 0 or 14 0  depending on what version of Visual Studio you have and you are done

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Hey This was my problem with my Visual basic net 2005 This is How i got it solved   1 Click start  -  type run  Or press win r  2 Type regedit 3 Click HKEY CLASSES ROOT 4 Click Licenses 5 Double click  Default   6 clear all text written in  Value data field 6 Press Ok 7 Run again Microsoft visual studio

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