I have the same problem with Windows 7 Pro. Have tried everything suggested by the Microsoft people, including uninstalling, cleaning up, reinstalling both from the web installer and the VS2010 Express iso - with the same result every time. To say it's frustrating is an understatement and the disinterest from Microsoft in fixing what appears to be a common problem (you can find lots of search engine 'hits' for the problem, none for a solution) is quite unbelievable. Since this is virtually a virgin Win7 install, the only conclusion is that MS have broken their licesing checks again (why check for a license on a free product?). Edit: Following further investigation I have concluded that the advice given by Microsoft is useless and does not attempt to diagnose the problem. It simply assumes a corrupt installation source. I believe that the problem is in fact corrupt permissions/ownership of registry keys.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Classes Licenses and subkeys needs to be owned by SYSTEM with admins having full access. On my affected system the owner cannot be displayed and no permissions are shown when viewed by admin. I don't have the definitive fix for this so far, as I cannot adequately edit the permissions for the affected registry keys.

I have 2.xlsx files, one of which has about 135,000 rows and the other with about 5,000 rows. The files have a common key so that I can do a VLOOKUP.

Re-installing Windows is an almost certain fix, but also an extremely drastic one. Thank you for the welcome and advice. It has been noted. Let me therefore put some meat on the bones: the advice given by Microsoft is useless and does not attempt to diagnose the problem. It simply assumes a corrupt installation source.

I believe that the problem is in fact corrupt permissions/ownership of registry keys. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Classes Licenses and subkeys needs to be owned by SYSTEM with admins having full access. On my affected system the owner cannot be displayed and no permissions are shown when viewed by admin. I don't have the definitive fix for this (yet!). – Jun 19 '10 at 22:42. I have had this EXACT problem with VS2010 Professional Trial / Evaluation download.

I can provide clear and concise steps to reproduce: • Set your system clock ahead by 1 day (oops!) • Install the trial software. • Set your system clock back to the correct date. • Start VS2010, you will receive the vague message indicating 'Invalid license data. Reinstall is required.' In my case, the resolution was quite simple - set the clock back ahead to the wrong date.

The next day, I was able to set the clock back to the correct date and continue using the product. Based on other answers to this question, it would appear there are numerous reasons that you could receive this message. This specific issue is most likely to be encountered by someone with a 'virgin' install of Windows since it is not so difficult to set the clock incorrectly when setting up a new computer and then fix it later (and if you fix the clock hours after installing the product, it might be hard to put it all together and realize what happened). Hope this helps someone else.

The Art Of Oddworld Inhabitants Pdf Free. It appears that this has been, but has been closed as 'Not Reproducible'. One suggestiong from the Microsoft supporter is to redownload and reinstall: Please try downloading the complete ISO from, mount it as virtual drive.

Then execute Visual C# setup from the ISO media and select an option to remove the product. Once the Visual C# has been uninstalled, please try installing it again from the ISO media. It sounds a bit far fetched to me, but you might want to give it a try. If that does not help you, I would suggest that you either post a new bug report to Microsoft or vote to reopen the existing one (I am not sure if/how this is possible). 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.

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): This is probably overkill, but after spending 10+ hours trying to get this working, I am just happy it works. 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. After the upgrade i have access to the HKCR Licenses again and Visual Studio 2010 starts as expected.

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 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:D 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'.

/* Formatted on 2005/01/25 19:45 (Formatter Plus v4.8.5) */ Not sure what is wrong with this? Thx in advance using oracle 9i ORA-29280: invalid directory path ORA-06512: at 'SYS.UTL_FILE', line 18 ORA-06512: at 'SYS.UTL_FILE', line 424 ORA-06512: at 'ADMIN_QA.WRITE_FILE', line 5 ORA-06512: at line 3 CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE write_file IS l_file UTL_FILE.file_type; BEGIN l_file:= UTL_FILE.fopen ('/tmp/outputfile/', 'testqa2_ora_14032_test1_b inds_singl e_process. Trc', 'w'); UTL_FILE.put_line (l_file, 'this is a test'); IF UTL_FILE.is_open (l_file) THEN UTL_FILE.fclose (l_file); END IF; END. Or you can use this query to see the directories (if you have rights to the v$parameter view) select value from v$parameter where name = 'utl_file_dir' / BTW: Especially with UTL_FILE, it's important to have an exception block.

At least to close the File. If you omit this, the file will remain open (and locked) for the duration of your session. Another point is the exception UTL_FILE can raise. These are in the 'user-reserved' ranges (-20000 thru -20999) If you simply reraise you get a user-defined exception. (except for the one you encountered, it was added as a regular exception in 9i).

For utl_file to work, the directory has to be 'approved' first. With Oracle9i, you (or your DBA) can do this either with: 1. A directory object that is created via SQL*Plus 2. A UTL_FILE_DIR entry in your spfile (or init*.ora file). Older versions of Oracle only supported the UTL_FILE_DIR approach, but this is less flexible, since it can only be changed by shutting down and restarting the instance. With Oracle9i, it is much better to create directories via SQL*Plus.

Here is an example of a 'create directory.' Command from our system (on Linux): CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY LOG AS '/var/ora_logs'; grant read, write on log to public; Note that when you use these directory names (like: LOG) with utl_file, they must be specified in upper case.

With oracle 9i no need to set UTL_FILE_DIR. The following executes successfully but no directory created. SQL>exec admin_qa.test_dir('outputf ile'); v_dyn_sql_grant grant create any directory to ADMIN_QA v_dyn_sql_dir create or replace directory outputfile_admin_qa as '/tmp/outputfile_admin_qa' dir path as '/tmp/outputfile_admin_qa' PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. Problem was missing slash VERY IMPORTANT make SURE SLASH is before tmp create or replace directory OUTPUTFILE_ADMIN_QA as '/tmp/outputfile_admin_qa' File is created but 'this is a test' is not written to file? CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE write_file (p_user_dir_nm IN VARCHAR2:= NULL) IS /* VERY IMPORTANT make SURE SLASH is before tmp create or replace directory OUTPUTFILE_ADMIN_QA as '/tmp/outputfile_admin_qa' */ log_handle UTL_FILE.file_type; log_file VARCHAR2 (200); log_line VARCHAR2 (32767); BEGIN log_file:= 'test_' TO_CHAR (SYSDATE, 'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS') '.txt'; log_handle:= UTL_FILE.fopen ('OUTPUTFILE_ADMIN_QA', log_file, 'w'); UTL_FILE.put_line (log_handle, 'this is a test'); IF UTL_FILE.is_open (log_handle) THEN UTL_FILE.fclose (log_handle); END IF; END; /.