Bloatware

[Laz77]

Hi,

I use a few of NI's GPIB products on many PC systems

I really dislike the fact that the downloads are huge and they install lots of needless services for all kinds of hardware that I don't have / never want (NI Motion Device Manager, Citadel,  NI Domain Server,  NI TestStand Service etc etc etc)

It's a huge hassle for me to disable these when installing on various hetrogenous systems.

Please repect your customers and stop the bloatware.

[Laz77]

PS I know there are some NI documents that list the services, but it would be even better if there was a simple install-time option with defaults and checkboxes.

If all I need is a GPIB-USB-HS driver to run against PyVISA code, then a 700MB download, 7 utilties and 10 Windows services is an overkill...

[JelmerD]

Hey, you can submit feedback on ni products here: https://survey.ni.com/cgi-bin/qwebcorporate.dll?idx=VPQGWG&lg=English

or contact your local NI office.

Best,

Jelmer

[Laz77]

Thanks - although I don't think that there will be any change.

Do you know if the GBIP-ENET/100 requires drivers to be installed for basic VISA operation?

[Robi56]

Quite agree. Tried the link, it doesn't work for me. Driver for GPIB-USB-HS is ludicrous.