Cannot install fully LabVIEW 2010 on WinXP SP3

[MF]

Hello,

I have tried numerous time today to install the NI Developer Suite 2010 using install discs. I have catalogged all of the items that did not install. LV 2010 does work but I am not sure if everything works. Here are the items and the order in which I was not able to install them:

"Critical Issues when using National instruments Drivers with Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2010 resolved by NI-PAL 2.6.5" - I successfully installed this but the message always comes up and gives me a "Are you sure you want to proceed" type message when I try to keep installing

"NI-USI 1.8.0" did not install.Error 1935

"NI-LabVIEW Runtime Engine Interop 2010" Error 1935

"NI AFW UI Assemblies" Error 1935

"NI Measurement Studio 8.6 Enterprise Runtime for VS2005" Error 1935

"NI AFW Channel Configuration Tool" Error 1935

"NI AFW Custom UI Assemblies" Error 1935

"NI LabWindows/CVI 2009 Service Pack 1 Runtime Engine" - No error number

Any idea if I need these applications to run LV 2010?

Thanks.

[Austin_S · Accepted solution]

It sounds like there may be something strange going on with your .NET framework that is causing this driver conflict.  Try uninstalling your current .NET framework as well as LabVIEW (from add/remove programs) and re-installing from the Microsoft .NET Framework page followed by a fresh LabVIEW install.

A couple other things to note:

Make sure that you have all of your anti-virus software/ firewalls turned off while trying to install LabVIEW.  We've seen this install error caused by that before.

Also, make sure that you're installing your drivers after your LabVIEW installation. 

[MF]

Thanks Austin. The problem was the .Net installation. I do not fully understand .Net and its ability to mess things up. I had to go and remove all of the .Net installations (1.0, 1.1, 2.0,3.0,3.5, and 4.0) but you cannot fully uninstall them even with MS .Net cleaner program unless you start the Windows OS in Safe mode. You would also think that just installing .Net 4.0 would be the way to go but other programs rely on earlier versions so you have to have them as well. After a day of uninstalling, cleaning and then reinstalling, I was able to fully install LabVIEW 2010 and also LV 2010 Service Pack 1. I did have the warning about NI-PAL that I mentioned before but I continued the install anyway. In the Event Viewer I still get LV errors but LV is working.