Activation of LabView still not working

Technical NI LabVIEW
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Still having problems activating LabView

Thank you for the good help with removing the .txt that was hidden. Just renaming the license file did not change it from a text file until I did as explained here: NI Community - National Instruments

Still can’t activate, though.

Opening NI License Manager (see end of explanation in link above) shows me that I do not have the FRC Competition entry, even though I downloaded the LabView file yesterday (11-10-08) from the FIRST site . See the attached Word Document that has a screen shot.
Now what?

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screenshot.doc (204 KB)

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Be careful … there’s a small disconnect between the LabVIEW installation and the steps provided on the FIRST page.

the FIRST page says to copy the license file (without the “.txt”) into a directory path with C:*ProgramFiles*…

but the NI LabVIEW installer (at least on MY laptop) installed the 8.5 software into C:**ProgramFiles(x86)**…

Once I noticed that, and copied my license file to BOTH of the “shared” directories, everything worked perfectly.

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I have uninstalled and redownloaded and reinstalled multiple times and still missing the FRC Robotics Competition entry in the Development System section from the NI License manager from the windows start menu.See the Word document screen shot above in my original post.

am I crazy?

thanks to anyone who could help.

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Have you posted your question to http://ni.com/first ? There are NI Application Engineers providing support on all of the NI aspects of the control system there.

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visit: http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=10934

(pay attention to the license file extension…txt…lic)