Upgrading LabVIEW

[Fifthparallel]

Typically, our team has a laptop with all of the various versions installed on top of each other until the licenses run out then just uninstall whatever expires (usually happens right around the beginning of January each year, haha).

Note that uninstalling LV 2011/FRC 2012 is easiest with going into Uninstall Programs and then finding the thing named National Instruments something or other, and run the uninstaller. You'll see a list over on the left, and Shift-Click everything in there, then click Remove. Have a mouse with a scrollwheel on hand, really eases up on you.

Uninstall takes roughly 1.5-2 hours on a beefy gaming laptop (i7-740 @ 1.7 -> 2.9 ghz, 16GiB ddr3 ram @ 1333 mhz, 7200 rpm 500 GiB hdd) so it may be something you want to let run overnight or through dinner. Make sure your laptop/desktop/Coffeemaker with an ARMv7 chip doesn't slow down hard disks/shutoff/go to sleep after XYZ amount of time, as that can halt and disturb the uninstall process.