LabVIEW 2012 takes very long to start

[njacacia]

It takes one minute after I double-click on *.lvproj file for the LabVIEW Licensing Wizard to appear.

I click on the Launch button.

Then it takes another 30 seconds for the Licensing Wizard window to close and the LabVIEW window to appear.

Then it takes another 45 seconds for the entire project to fully load.

All total = 2 minutes 15 seconds

The LabVIEW 2012 32-bit is running on a laptop running with Window 10 with i7 cpu and 8GB of RAM.

I am at a lost what is causing this long boot-up.

I have disabled NI Device Monitor in start-up.

Any ideas what else to try?

[Gregory]

Have you installed any extra toolkits or add-ons through VIPM?

[crossrulz]

1. The more toolkits you install, the longer it will take.  Uninstall any unnecessary toolkits.

2. You can try having the palettes load in the background.  This is somewhere in the options dialog.

3. 2012 is not supported on Windows 10, so this could be adding to the problem.

4. Right around that time frame, NI started doing a lot of work on improving load times.  So you might want to consider upgrading.

[billko]

Wasn't there something about the LabVIEW News crawler that slowed things to a crawl on some machines, such that they actually introduced an option in later versions to turn it off?  (You can still do this in the LabVIEW.ini, I believe, even if you have a version before this was an option.)

[njacacia · Accepted solution]

Instead of fighting the problem, I decided to ask IT to re-image the laptop with Windows 10.

As I write this, LabVIEW 2012 is being installed via command line script.

I had read the KB that NI does not support LabVIEW 2012 on Windows 10.

I will have to cross that bridge when I see the behavior once LabVIEW 2012 is installed.

[njacacia]

No issues so far with LabVIEW 2012 32-bit running in Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.

I am not sure what the previous LabVIEW developer did, but LabVIEW is loading much quicker than it was before.  Maybe that's why he quit without giving any notice.