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]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

[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.

[cabbagekid2]

We've had mixed results. Our students installed it on their personal laptops and no problems there. However, when we installed it on the school dell laptop running vista we had multiple problems.

The first installation was fine, however when we started runing the actual Labview program, multiple errors came up saying we were missing a bunch of files. We uninstalled and reinstalled labview again. Same errors. So then we tried finding the missing files from a laptop with no errors and copying it to the computer. After that, we could open a new blank VI but could not open any of the FRC templates.

Finally...we just reformated the whole laptop from scratch, installed Labview and no problems for now...

[EncodersRUS]

WindRiver was the one thing that my Vista didn't like. I tried to re-download again and again and even copied a working copy- same results. Then I downloaded the full version and got the horrible news.......................
My version of Vista does not fully integrate WindRiver and will just reject the final process, even running on Vista's ghost Admin.
I still dont have the full version but enough to get by.

[T3H_K3YM45T3R]

I got windriver to install just fine, but I had the same problem trying to get labview to install...but one of the mentors took the labview install disk so I can't try anything for a couple of days

[darkorbit]

Alright I see many people are having this issue. There was a read me that said what versions of xp and vista worked with windriver or lab view. I had the windriver problem but I fixed it. Wind River only works on windows XP pro or Windows vista Business edition and above. Lab view shouldn't have any problems. We had Vista home premium and I got an error for wind river. We bought a copy of windows vista Business and there was no problems. Wind River should not have a problem on windows vista ultimate edition either. Make sure you have java installed. For Lab View un-install any previous versions of lab view before you install the new version.