https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48023 --- Comment #30 from Louis Lenders <xerox.xerox2000x(a)gmail.com> --- For anyone who also runs into this "license has expired" blocking window: Somehow I managed to solve this by doing things found on the internet. - Removed a few regkeys: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31725192/visual-studio-2015-prerelease-s... (I don't know if this really needed) - Make sure I was signed out of my account - Start the installer again (vs_community) and choose the option "repair" (all this is done with native msxml6) devenv.exe now works rather stable (also used native concrt140) , compiled simple project. I encountered another fatal Failfastexception two times, which seemed related to UI issues, so for now I run with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 which seems to make it more stable for me (again, not 100% sure about this, needs more testing) All this is done while I'm not signed in. I'll try sign in and see how things go then. About this bugreport: It now contains lot of info. Guess we need to split out seperate issues. The issue "Visual Studio not starting" basically only needs 3 patches 1. RegLoadAppKey patch https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=65561&action=diff Attempt An attempt was done by Santino Mazzo https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/820 but never made it upstream. 2. Patch https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=74525&action=diff Nicolai said it looked ok, so hopefully Lorenzo: you might wanna try to get this upstream? 3. Pending patch on the list https://www.winehq.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/wine-gitlab(a)winehq.org/thr... This patch is linked to bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54609 All the other patches are for actually working with the program so guess we should track these issues in new bugreports, once the above issues are solved -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.