Invalid license data reinstall is required visual studio 2010 как исправить

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.

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

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.

answered Mar 6, 2015 at 21:18

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

answered Apr 24, 2011 at 19:47

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!

answered Dec 13, 2011 at 16:51

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 HKCRLicenses again and Visual Studio 2010 starts as expected.

answered Jan 11, 2012 at 9:59

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!

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 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

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

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

answered Nov 14, 2017 at 22:58

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.

answered May 5, 2011 at 11:35

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 !

answered May 11, 2012 at 8:39

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.

answered Nov 9, 2013 at 6:36

answered Jun 1, 2017 at 12:50

answered Jun 15, 2017 at 12:40

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.

answered Sep 7, 2017 at 7:47

answered Feb 14, 2019 at 4:09

My problem:

• 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 Advanced -> 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

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
7. Press Ok
8. Run again Microsoft visual studio

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.

answered Sep 7, 2017 at 8:32

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.

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

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.

answered Mar 6, 2015 at 21:18

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

answered Apr 24, 2011 at 19:47

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!

answered Dec 13, 2011 at 16:51

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 HKCRLicenses again and Visual Studio 2010 starts as expected.

answered Jan 11, 2012 at 9:59

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!

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 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

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

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

answered Nov 14, 2017 at 22:58

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.

answered May 5, 2011 at 11:35

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 !

answered May 11, 2012 at 8:39

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.

answered Nov 9, 2013 at 6:36

answered Jun 1, 2017 at 12:50

answered Jun 15, 2017 at 12:40

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.

answered Sep 7, 2017 at 7:47

answered Feb 14, 2019 at 4:09

My problem:

• 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 Advanced -> 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

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
7. Press Ok
8. Run again Microsoft visual studio

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.

answered Sep 7, 2017 at 8:32