How do I fix an “Invalid license data. Reinstall is required.” error in Visual C# 2010 Express?

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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!

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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

1. Download subinacl command line tool
   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en

2. Run these commands:
   subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Licenses /setowner=everyone
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Licenses /grant=everyone=f

3. 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)