How to Find Your Microsoft Visual Studio Product or License Key

How to Find Your Microsoft Visual Studio Product or License Key
November 27, 2021
in Product License Key
No Comments
2972

Have you lost or unable to find your Microsoft Visual Studio product key?

If so, this article will help you to quickly find your Visual Studio license key using multiple methods.

Find Visual Studio License Key in Order Email

Often you can find most of your softwares license key in the order email.

Follow the steps below to search for Visual Studio key in your email,

    • Step 1. Login to your email inbox (used for ordering software)
    • Step 2. Search for emails having “Visual Studio license” or “Visual Studio activation”
    • Step 3. Now check in each found email to see if it has license key of your Visual Studio software

Find Microsoft Visual Studio License Key in Registry

Another way is to look for license keys in Windows Registry. Like most softwares, Visual Studio also stores activation key and other registration details in Registry.

Below is the Registry location where you can find Visual Studio software activation key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[version]\Registration\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[version]\Registration\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[version]\Registration\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[version]\Registration\[GUID]\

[VS 2012] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Licenses\77550D6B-6352-4E77-9DA3-537419DF564B\[random_num]\
[VS 2013] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Licenses\E79B3F9C-6543-4897-BBA5-5BFB0A02BB5C\[random_num]\
[VS 2015] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Licenses\4D8CFBCB-2F6A-4AD2-BABF-10E28F6F2C8F\[random_num]\
[VS 2017] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Licenses\5C505A59-E312-4B89-9508-E162F8150517\[random_num]\
[VS 2019] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Licenses\41717607-F34E-432C-A138-A3CFD7E25CDA\[random_num]\

Here are simple steps to locate your Visual Studio serial key in Registry,

  • Step 1. Open Registry Editor (start menu -> search -> type regedit)
  • Step 2. After it opens, on the left side navigate to above Registry key location.
  • Step 3. Next, on the right side pane, you will find item named ‘PIDKEY’ or “” (default). Now double click on it to copy the activation key.

Find Microsoft Visual Studio License Key Automatically

If you don’t want to go through trouble of finding your Visual Studio license key manually every time then here is easy way.

You can use All-In-One Key Finder Pro software to find your Visual Studio activation key easily with just a click of button.

Not just Visual Studio product key, it can also help you to find serial keys of Windows, Office, Adobe and over 1000’s of popular softwares.

See the video below on how to easily & instantly recover all your software license keys,

Below are the steps to recover your Visual Studio license key,

  • Step 1. Download All-In-One Key Finder Pro (click here)
  • Step 2. Install the software by running Setup_AllInOneKeyFinderPro.exe
  • Step 3. Now launch the software and it will automatically find CD key of Visual Studio and all other popular softwares as shown below,
It can also recover your lost license keys directly from hard disk of non-bootable PC or directly from another computer in your network.

Download All-In-One Key Finder Pro

Free Download

100% Secure

Hope this article has helped you to find your lost Visual Studio product key.
Please comment below if you have any queries or share your experience.

 


Recommended Posts

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *