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In the list that appears, several items appear to have no name.In the bottom panel, expand "Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Setup - Maintenance Page".

It may be helpful to heighten the bottom panel that appears now, if your screen is big enough. Right-click this item and select "Detailed Info".

In the Applications tab, find Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Setup - Maintenance Page.

(If you don't do this, you won't be able to enable the controls.)

Launch AnVir Task Manager as an Administrator.

The controls you want are hidden just under these three options.

On the SECOND screen you will see three options: "Add or Remove Features", "Repair/Reinstall", "Uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio 2008".

When it does, click "Next >" from the FIRST screen.

Wait for the maintenance program to launch.

Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional ENU, click Uninstall/Change at the top of the list.

Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features.

Download and install/unzip AnVir Task Manager Free (portable version here: ).I say should, because even in this brave new world without product keys I find it hard to believe there won’t be a few installation horror stories involving product activation.Here is a more-or-less complete guide to upgrading Visual Studio 2008 trial to pro in Windows 7. Once your Windows 10 upgrade activates, you can grab a Windows 10 install image, do a clean install, skip the screen asking for product keys, and you should just re-activate again after the install is complete. You can check your activation status by going to Settings > Update & Security > Activation. After installation, your version of Windows 10 should just activate in the background in a few moments or a few days at the most.

It looks like the product key is on its way out, at least as far as users are concerned. “Once activated, a digital entitlement for your PC’s hardware is created in the Windows 10 activation service.This entitlement can be used by the same PC again for re-activation of the same Edition of Windows 10 in the future.” “Upon upgrading to Windows 10, the activation state from a prior version of Windows (be it Windows 7, Windows 8 or a prior build of Windows 10) is seamlessly carried over,” a Microsoft spokesperson told PCWorld.