Okay, here's what I've found. My column separators definitely were not
working correctly. Darren, thanks for the "initialization" vs
"installation" note. I swear, I read that three times before I noticed
that they weren't the same word. It actually does say "Finishing
Initialization" on startup every time, and it is slow, but that looks
normal. A fresh startup after a clean reboot takes about 64 seconds on
my Pentium M 1.6 with 1.5GB ram. Later LabVIEW launches were taking
about 10 seconds. While this looks pretty similar to what other people
are experiencing, it is really awful, and I hope NI does something
about it. btw, thanks Altenback for the link, but I don't appear to be
having any FlexLM issues. Also, if you uncheck "Autosize Row Height",
you'll be able to resize rows again.
Now here's where it gets interesting, I was using PushOK SVN Proxy
software for source code control. During startup this was popping up a
couple of dialogs and I decided to turn it off to see if it would
improve startup speeds. Turning it off does save me about 5-6 seconds
on each startup, but surprisingly, it also fixed my column separator
bug. Apparently something isn't working quite right there; I don't know
if it is the PushOK software, or the SCC ties in LabVIEW, but it isn't
right. I can use TortoiseSVN instead, so I think I'll do that.
Anyway, thanks for your comments guys. And in the future if you see
something that seems buggy, try turning off your SCC. I will report
this formally.
<Rant>While I'm at it, I'd like to take a brief moment to rant
about the toolkit installers. The way they work is shameful, and
someone at NI really needs to spend some time on them. It wouldn't hurt
to tie them into the License Managment system, and provide a unified
installer that can optionally place all toolkits into selected
installations. I've never been so annoyed with LabVIEW as I was trying
to get my various toolboxes to work with both LV7.1 and LV8,
particularly as I had tried to show off some new features of LV8, and I
had to wait more than a minute with an audience for the development
environment to start, and then the required toolkits that I had thought
I'd installed were not available. Not a happy day. </Rant>
Chris