Having downloaded and installed LabVIEW 2011 and several modules (Mathscript, RT, FPGA, etc.) I got annoyed by the following:
When running the donwloaded exe, we get an overly complicated dialog with many useless buttons ("run winzip"???), a choice where to unzip and what to do after unzipping. By default the following is selected:
Well, tough luck with that last one, because it will not automatically run setup but instead popup the most useless dialog in the history of computing:
The only thing we can do is press OK. Why does the entire install process need to stall here and prevent starting of setup.exe unless we acknowledge that the unzip completed? Dialogs should only be present if user interaction is required or something unexpected happened, which is definitely not the case here. (I don't mind a popup if the uzipping encountered an error, for example)
(Microsoft has definitely cleaned up its act here when dealing with zip files. Compare the "right-click...extract all" between windows XP and windows 7. Windows 7 eliminated all useless dialogs and works much smoother.)
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