05-08-2012 08:53 AM
company is updating from winXP to win7. Currently we are using labview 8.6 version. Will labview 8.6 run at win7?
Thanks
Yihan
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05-08-2012 10:18 AM
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/A45AD60ED0A571C28625766B005859D2?OpenDocument
From this thread : http://forums.ni.com/t5/FieldPoint-Family/NI-software-hardware-compatibility-with-Windows-7/m-p/1857...
Only LabVIEW 2009 and later are officially supported on Windows 7. However, some older versions of LabVIEW work with Windows 7.
I have it installed at home on a win7 x64 machine at home and it "seems" to work fine.
05-08-2012 10:27 AM
thank u so much
05-09-2012 02:02 AM
LabVIEW 8.6 works fine on Windows 7 but you need to be aware of several tightened up restrictions in Windows 7. They don't prevent LabVIEW 8.6 and even 7.1 from running on Windows 7, but can pose a hurdle in some operations. As far as LabVIEW itself goes, earlier versions store the application configuration settings in an INI file in the same directory as where LabVIEW is installed. Windows 7 (and Vista) virtualizes that so if you change the settings they will be redirected to some directory in your user profile. Nothing so far unless you go and try to make changes to the INI file manually. If you modify the file in your LabVIEW directory it won't have any infuence since Windows serves LabVIEW the shadow copy if it exists and that happens as soon as you make one modificiation to the configuration in the Options dialog.
For the rest your applications you develop need to be aware of the extra tightened security in accessing the HD locations and registry. Newer LabVIEW versions have handy convinience functions that return you various harddisk directories that your application can use to safely store data without having to resort to requiring administrator priviliges. But there are many libraries out there that can give you these directories too also in older LabVIEW versions.