how to remove all refernce of installed Visual studio from system
One day sudenly my visual studio professional edition strated dsiplaying trial period expired error message on lauching
it.i had installed VSTS 2008
trial version for learning and some R&D purpose and i forgot to uninstall it before trial got expired. Un fortunately even
my professional edition stopped working
Aproach 1:
1) Use microsoft autouninstal tool to uninstall all components installed along visual studio 2008 products
2) Double verify mnaully there is no other installed products or versions related to Visual studio
Go to add remove programs and check it (like SQL server express edition or any related products). If it present then
unistal or remove that product also from your syatem
3) Re install your original visual studio professional edition
Approach 2:
This approach perfectely helped me
1) Launch your visual studio
2) Download download the Sysinternals Process Monitor at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/processmonitor.mspx
3) Unzip the Process monitor package to a useful location
3) Start visual studio
4) Check process monitor window (You may see 1000′s of enteries in processmonitor window, Do scratch your head that is ok
you have aoption to filter the enteries )
5) Set a filter in the monitor to show only activity related to devenv.exe process name
6) Launch visual studio and let expiration message window to display on screen
7) Go to process monitor window and scroll downslowly to see HKCR\Licenses enteries
Open registry editor, Go to Run , type command regedit and press enter registry editor isopend
9) Browse to the HKey_CLASSES_ROOT\Licenses branch and find the key identified in the process monitor.
Before editing any registry entry do not forget to copy and basckup in your sysatem. if anything goes wrong you should have
backup to replace edited entries.
10) Rename the entire key node ,Not the subkeys.. inserting xx before the key works as defined above
11) close registry editor and process monitor
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12) restart visual studio
13) Again you may see message window saying license information is not found.Do not worry if you see this message iIt
displayed since you edited license information
14) Use microsoft uninstal tool to uninstall all Visual studio products
15) Instal every thing now as a freesh instalation and launch visual studio
Microsoft trials and betas leave the previous licenses in the HKey_CLASSES_ROOT\Licenses branch. When Visual Studio loads,
it finds the old key and sees that it has expired.Even this wil stop working your other licensed version of visual studio .
Until i found this solution i was in impression that all i have to formast my system to use even visual studio professional
edition. I know second approach is little tedious but this wil help you to find a way out of frustartion.
How to remove all reference of installed Visual studio from system
One day suddenly my visual studio professional edition started displaying trial period expired error message on launching it. i had installed VSTS 2008 trial version for learning and some R&D purpose. I forgot to uninstall it before trial period got expired. Un fortunately after VSTS trial period even my visual studio professional edition stopped working. Weird trial period expired message window displayed.
Approach 1:
1) Download Microsoft auto uninstall tool to uninstall all components installed along visual studio 2008 products. Run uninstall tool.
2) Double verify manually there is no other installed products or versions related to Visual studio in system
Go to add remove programs and check it (like SQL server express edition or any related products). If it’s present then uninstall or remove that product from your system.
3) Re install your original visual studio professional edition
Approach 2:
This approach perfectly helped me to remove VSTS trial edition and install visual studio professional version.
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