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LabView 2009 30 day evaluation, zero days left. How to uninstall it?

Hi All.

 

Well, after a less than pleasant 30 days with this stuff, and only about 10 days actually messing with it, and finding problems (even a genuine bug catch) in the process, the 30 days have expired, & despite calls and emails to Newbury, no return calls or mails have been received in return.   So....

 

As LabView 2009 does not show up in Windows(XP) AddRemove Programs list in the control panel, and there is no "uninstall" program supplied with it, how to I cleanly remove it all, WITHOUT affecting the previous install of all the NI-488 and Visa drivers I have on here that are used for other things.

 

I did search for "Uninstall", nothing found, either here on the forum, or in the programs help files.

 

Regards.

 

Dave Baxter
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In the Add/Remove Programs you should see a "National Instruments Software" entry. If you select "Change/Remove" on this then you will see a list of all NI software that's been installed. If you don't see this, then you have a corrupted installation, and I wonder whether part of your problems were actually caused by this.

 

At worst case you will need to use msiblast

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Hi Dave,

 

too bad it didn't work out for you.

 

LabVIEW should be uninstallable with the category 'National Instruments' software in the AdRemove Programs list of Windows.

 

Ton

 

PS, what bug did you find?

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TCPlomp wrote:

PS, what bug did you find?


Probably what's mentiond here. I did not look into it.

 

 

And I do agree that 30 consecutive actual days is not enough to evaluate LabVIEW if starting from scratch.

Learning LabVIEW from scratch requires some serious mouse time. 30 days is only a few weekends!

 

3 months would be more realistic.... 🙂

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Hi Ton (and others)

 

This one, is what I fell over, causing me more grief than I've had for many a year.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=454380&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

 

I don't think I was the first either, so cant help wondering why such a critical component was released with known buggy code? Especialy when it is advertsised (rightly or wrongly) as being the easiest LV to use to date, with many pre programed tools etc.

 

 

Anyway...

 

LV2009 is currently uninstalling itself.  Thanks for the hint. (smercurio_fc too)  Though it's taking a   l o  n   g    time about it.

 

Have to ask though, why instructions for this are not in the help system.   The reported byte count in Control Panel's "National Instruments software" item under AddRemove Programs, is no way near big enough to indicate it was LV.

 

(I'm prety sure there used to be a "NI" item in Control Panel itself in the past.   No doubt one of the many Winders updates changed that while I wasn't watching.)

 

 

RE LV in general.  I can see there is lots of good things in there, but the documentaion is poor (for a newbie, the infamous "Getting Started" document for one, needs updating to how LV2009 actually works!) and there are so many things (too many to go into) that are just plain counter intuitive.  There again, it is driven by 'C' code, so I shouldnt bee too suprised by that.   If I was going to spend all my working hours with it, I'd have no hesitation in recomending we buy it.

 

But, I was asked to look at it, as a support tool for a pre-existing software product built with it buy someone else.  For that, and it will be a rare occurance we get involved so I think, it's totaly over the top cost wise, by many 10's of dB.   The training courses too, for us are likewise too expensive for what we would get out of it, and having now also spoken with someone I know, who it turns out has been on the very course we were thinking about, said it was of little use over and above what you can get from spending a lot of hands on time with it.

 

If we ever sell a copy of the mithical product (it's not exactly geared to the European market) I expect it will be supported direct from the US in any case.  Even if we got involved at the nuts-n-bolts level, we'd have to consult with the US programmers anway, so best they get all the hassle from the user, and we just take the money! 😉

 

For me.  Back to semi familiar ground, burnt components, dirty machinery, and some part time work with Delphi when needed.

 

Regards to All.

 

Dave B.

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Hi Dave,

I think you can get a debug-license for the exact purpose of your work intended.

I am not sure what the limitations of such a license will be.

Yes it is kinda bad that the interesting conferences are in the US, but is in almost any programming language/framework.

 

I'd probably is cheaper to find some LabVIEW contracter that is willing to do the occasional support/debug work on you LabVIEW code-base.

Now that you have glanced at the product you can have some insight in the work he is doing, alwasy a pre.

 

Ton

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Hi Dave,

 

Thank you for contacting National Instruments. I am sorry that you appear to have had such difficulty with LabVIEW. I am sorry that your calls and emails have not been answered, I am not sure what has happened there. If you are trying to get hold of the UK office, I would ring 01635 523 545 and ask to speak to the technical support team. 

 

I just want to clarify a few additional points

 

1. LabVIEW is not driven by C code. You may notice similarities in the way that they operate but LabVIEW compiles straight to machine code; it does not go through an intermediatory code level. 

 

2. The support in the UK is based in Newbury. Our office hours are 9 to 5.30 Monday to Thursday and 9 to 5 on a Friday. We liaise with the States when we have difficult issues to solve but Uk customers are supported from the UK office. 

 

3. Regarding the interesting Events only being in the US. We recently (about a week ago) held a large event in London for our UK customers. This included 18 hours of Hands on time and 40 Hours of technical sessions. It was well attended and designed for the UK market.  Here is a link to some of the material from the event.

 

4. If you look at the UK page - here - you will also notice that we run events around the year for our UK customers.

 

5. There are a number of resources that you may have been unaware of located here. They essentially give you an overview of how to use LabVIEW.

 

Again, I am sorry that you have had difficulty with using LabVIEW. I have passed your details onto the local field Engineer to get in  touch with you about some of the issues that you have found. 

 

If you want to call me and discuss any of the above, please feel free to do so. I will be unavailable from next week but if you want me to call you back, I can.

 

Many thanks,

Andrew McLennan
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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