Visual Studio 2013 License Product Key

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I installed Visual Studio 2013 Professional as a Trial version while waiting for my company to complete the license purchase    They completed the purchase of 4 licenses  64 bit   but were not given Product Keys  Instead  there is a particular  iso file with the license or product key embedded in some way   I want to avoid having to uninstall Visual Studio 2013 only to reinstall Visual Studio 2013 and re-setup all my settings   Is this possible  Is there a way to extract the license product key from the  iso or from other coworkers desktops that did a clean install   Here is what I have tried  with 2 coworker installations     Looking for the license info in    HKLM SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Microsoft VisualStudio 12 0 Licenses    but it is unique on both computers  Looking for the Product Key in   HKLM SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Microsoft VisualStudio 12 0 Registration 2000 0x0000 PIDKEY  One install had one  which my install said was invalid when attempting to use it  The other install had a blank PIDKEY  Looking inside SW DVD5 Visual Studio Pro 2013 English MLF X19-20996 ISO but I see no mention of a License or Product Key  Checking their Help  gt  Register Product in Visual Studio  which simply says     License  Product key applied  Tried doing an install repair from the ISO but it says      The product version that you are trying to set up is earlier than the version already installed on this computer    Likely because of the Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 and 2   Again  I would really like to avoid the multi-hour process of reinstalling VS 2013  Is there any way

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I solved this  without having to completely reinstall Visual Studio 2013   For those who may come across this in the future  the following steps worked for me    Run the ISO  or vs professional exe   If you get the error below  you need to update the Windows Registry to trick the installer into thinking you still have the base version  If you don t get this error  skip to step 3    Click the link for  examine the log file  and look near the bottom of the log  for this line   open regedit exe and do an Edit  gt  Find    for that GUID  In my case it was  6dff50d0-3bc3-4a92-b724-bf6d6a99de4f   This was found in      HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall 6dff50d0-3bc3-4a92-b724-bf6d6a99de4f   Edit the BundleVersion value and change it to a lower version  I changed mine from 12 0 21005 13 to 12 0 21000 13    Exit the registry  Run the ISO  or vs professional exe  again  If it has a repair button like the image below  you can skip to step 4       Otherwise you have to let the installer fix the registry  I did this by  installing  at least one feature  even though I think I already had all features  they were not detected   This took about 20 minutes   Run the ISO  or vs professional exe  again  This time repair should be visible  Click Repair and let it update your installation and apply its embedded license key  This took about 20 minutes      Now when you run Visual Studio 2013  it should indicate that a license key was applied  under Help  gt  Register Product     Hope this helps somebody in the future   Reference blog  story

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