Evaluation message keeps coming up

[VB.NET/ASP.NET Programmer]

I had Meas. Studio 6 installed already fine. Recently I installed Meas. Studio.NET and decided to uninstall it. Now whenever I try to use my version 6 stuff I get this message:
"You have 30 days to evaluate the Meas. Studio ActiveX controls. After this period..."

[jlaney]

Hello,

If you look in the readme on the CD it states:

If you have installed Measurement Studio 7.0 on a machine that has prior versions of the Measurement Studio user interface and 3D graph controls and then uninstall Measurement Studio 7.0, the controls might exhibit evaluation software behavior for 30 days. Fix this problem by using the Measurement Studio ActiveX License Fixer Utility located on your CD in the ActiveX License Fixer Utility folder.

Regards,
Jeff

[gsimonton]

Hello,

Well, I am having the same problem as the person above.....But:

The activeX Fixer utility is giving me a "runtime error '9', subscript out of range" message when I try to revert to a previous license.

I tried downloading the utility from the NI site to no avail...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks,

Gary

[DWeiland]

Hi Gary,

Are you getting this error when you run the ActiveX Fixer Utility itself? Or after you run the fixer and attempt to use Measurement Studio again?
Is it when you open the ActiveX Fixer or when you try to "fix" a license?

When you say that you tried to download it from our website 'to no avail' - the same error occurred with the downloaded version or you couldn't download it?

Let us know Gary, thanks.

[gsimonton]

Hello Dan,


Thanks for the quick response!  Yes, the error occurs inside the ActiveX Fixer utility when I try to "fix" the license, and the same error occurs with the version I downloaded from the NI site.

When I open the fixer utility, I check the box to revert to the old license and then the error mentioned in my first post pops up.

My situation is that I had the Measurement Studio 7.0 evaluation version on my machine previously, and now I have installed Measurement Studio 7.1.


Thanks for your help.


- Gary

[DWeiland]

Hi Gary,

Honestly your best bet for fixing the problem at this point is to simply uninstall Measurement Studio, unregister and delete the cwui.ocx and any other ActiveX control that might have been left behind, then reinstall Measurment Studio.

I realize it isn't the nicest solution, but that will get you up and working.

Let me know if that doesn't take care of it Gary. Have a good one.

[gsimonton]

Dan,

so I did as you instructed, and no luck....

I uninstalled Meas. Studio, I took the graph out of my application and removed the component reference in VB6, I unregistered and deleted all the activeX controls (both .ocx and .dll).....but after a reinstall i still get the evaluation version message in my application.

I am about five days away from handing this application over to my customer and need a solution to this asap. Any other ideas, or workarounds to this problem that you can think of?


Regards,

Gary

[DWeiland]

Hi Gary,

Ok, there is a utility available that does a fairly comprehensive removal of NI Products. Try this out and let me know.

Thanks for all your patience.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=250&message.id=12643&requireLogin=False

[jlaney]

Hello,

I would suggest doing as you did before.  Removing the OCX and unregistering it from your machine, after you uninstall.  You may also need to delete any left over SaveAs and License registry keys left as well.  These Keys are located:

HKLM\Software\National Instruments\ComponentWorks\CWUI\CWSaveAs\...

Licenses\C5594272-5BB3-4089-8297-41394DB59EB8

Then you should reinstall just the MStudio 7.1 release that you have and see if this fixes things.

Also, is this only happening on your development machine?  Have you tried deploying your application to see if this is also happeing in a clean machine?

Regards,

Jeff

[gsimonton]

Dan and Jeff,

I tried both of these solutions and still the evaluation version of the control pops up in my application.

I am not totally sure I am doing everything correctly when uninstalling/unregistering components (.ocx, .dll)

A few questions:

Do I have to unregister and delete ALL of the .ocx files associated with NI? or just the cwui.ocx? and if I need to unregister/delete all of them, are they all found in the system32 folder with cw at the beginning of the filename?

Also, do I need to unregister/delete ALL the .dll's in the system32 folder that are from NI? I noticed that even after using the msiblast application there were still alot of NI .dll files in there.

I also tried looking in the registry as you mentioned Jeff, but the registry key you mentioned is not even present on my development machine (the CWUI folder is there but the keys are not the same). The same registry entry ( the CWUI folder) is not even present on a separate machine that has a licensed version of Meas. Studio installed.

The second machine I mentioned is my clean machine for deployment testing and never even had the evaluation version of Meas. Studio installed.....But I did install the licensed version on the clean machine and then tried taking the control out of the main form and reinstalling it, but it still puts the evaluation version back into the program.

Am I not installing the correct drivers when I do the install of the licensed version of Meas. Studio?  I was only prompted to put in the two device driver disks when installing, is the graphing component found elsewhere in the barrage of CD's that come with the Labview program?

I sincerely appreciate the help you gentlemen have provided to this point and only hope that we have not explored all of our options.....Please let me know.

Regards,

Gary