I'm trying to installa custom application that I built with LabVIEW 2011 to an older PC. (1.6ghz windows xp). The installer contains additional installers for the 2011 run-time engine and the distributed system manager. My issue is that running the installer on these older machines takes HOURS. I've been sitting here for about 1.5 hours and the installer is about 60% done. I've disabled SSE2 optimization and copied the installer from the usb disk to the hard drive before running it, but neither have seemed to make a difference. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could do to speed up these installs or what might be slowing them down?
I've found such installers do take a long time on older machines (up to an hour).... but one culprit that might be slowing you down is a virus scanner or similar. Temporarily disabling its run-time protection might give a boost.
Another likely issue is a very large or possibly corrupted MSI database. The installers use the MSI engine, so if you have an old machine that hasn't been cleaned up in ages, then it's likely the MSI database has simply gotten out of hand.
