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I have installed Visual Studio 2017 Professional with a product key. Now I would like to install VS 2017 Professional on a different machine. How can I retrieve the product key used in the first installation?
I googled and found VS no longer stores keys directly in the registry. Instead, there's a new way to extract the key. I followed the links below:
How to change Visual Studio 2017 license key?
Updating registry settings for Visual Studio 2017
However, I could not find the exact location where the product key is stored.
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Hi, you can easily get your Visual Studio product key. Just follow these simple steps. 1.) first of all open Open Registry. Click Start (windows icon) > regedit. 2.) now to find your product key, follow this path. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Wow6432Node > Microsoft > VisualStudio -> 14.0 > Registration > 2000.0×0000 > PIDKEY.
To claim a product key: Sign in to your Visual Studio subscription. You must be signed in to download products or claim product keys. Product keys are listed alphabetically by the name of the product. You can either scroll down to the name of the desired product, or search for it using the search bar at the top of the page.
As you can see, there are several versions listed. One key each has already been claimed for Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 versions 16.0 and 16.1. Additional keys of different types are still available for both versions. Notice that you can record a brief note about claimed keys in the Notes column.
Is there any way I can recover the key from the registered Visual Studio or from my Microsoft account? both PCs run Windows 10 and being used under same Microsoft account, if it helps You should be able to find the activation key under the registry path HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Licenses\4D8CFBCB-2F6A-4AD2-BABF-10E28F6F2C8F\07062 .
You can find MS VS 2017 product key information from: https://my.visualstudio.com/productkeys
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