Installing Labveiw on Vista

[mtnman1]

Has anyone had any trouble installing labview on vista? I have installed it twice and each time when it is done i try to open labview and it says it cannot open the resource files. Any help would be appreciated i need it installed as soon as possible so i can start programming for lunacy!

[Bryan Herbst]

No, I haven't had any problems installing it on Vista.

First, look at the path of the source files Labview is looking for. Then, look for the installation directory (should be something like c:\program files\National Instruments\Labview8.5). If the two don't match, try reinstalling again, but make sure to change the installation path to the path Labview is looking for.

You should also fully uninstall labview before installing it again.

Finally, if the installation path matches what Labview is looking for, you may have a larger problem, and should try and contact NI.

[TimeOut]

No problems with Vista here either. When do you get the 'cannot find source' files errors? Do you see the Getting Started screen that allows you to open/create a new file?

D. Sean Kelly
Team #499

[McGurky]

nope no problems for me, sorry

[morganh2550]

sorry if i am stating the obvious but if you were running a program while installing labview that could be it. or if you have antivirus you need to disables the feature that blocks changes and start up programs. finally DO NOT LET THE COMPUTER GO TO SLEEP WHILE INSTALLING THE PROGRAM!

[EncodersRUS]

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[DonF]

Hi

Labview was fine (as far as I can tell) on on my Vista x64. However Wind River on Vista x64 won't show me the example code. I only discovered this today by comparing it to an XP vista installation which had the example FRC code from in the demo directory. When I checked the same directory on the x64 machine the FRC code is there but does not show up in teh workbench(although 3 default examples do.)

Don

[davidf]

I have had mixed success, on a Vista 64-bit Home Edition computer LabView installed just fine, albeit very slowly, however WindRiver never made it through the install process (it just kept copying files for over 20 hours). This was on brand-new, out of the box dell computers, and I had the same result on two computers.

I could not get the firmware to update from the Vista computer, although the default dashboard program w/ camera worked.

A third computer, also brand new, but with Vista 32-bit Professional, would install neither LabView or WindRiver successfully (resource problem on LV as you described, and WR would never finish installing).

So we are downgrading all our computers to 32-bit XP...

-David

[Gravitynerd]

yup working fine. mayb you didn't install/download it successfully. im prettysure that's the reason for that message comming up. and i got vista with service pack 1 running on 64bit home premium . im just gona show off here and say i got a 2.5ghz core 2 quad processor with 8 gigs of ram , 750gb 7200rpm hard drive, 768mb of video card memory, aaaaaaaaaaaaaand.......... ya that's it.

[CJBrick]

Run the installer as a administrator.
im running on a 64 bit vista ultamite laptop. about the worst combination for probems. but im running it fine

[Mr. D]

We also have Lab View on Vista, we are running a Sony Vaio with Vista Home premium. Work's with No issuse, make sure you are an admin. of the computer.

[Team2339]

were having some problems with our programming and we believe its because of vista. we have it installed and running but when we deploy the programming nothing happens when we move our joystick. but we have it working fine on our other computer with xp

do you have any ideas as to why were having this problem?