Labview install won't start

[speakers22222222]

Hello,

   I have a laptop with win2k.  I'm trying to install LV 5.1.  I put the CD in, it autoruns, the menu pops up and I click "Install LV".  The CD spins up and the hard drive light blinks, and nothing happens.  I go into the filesystem of the CD and find setup.exe on disk 1 of the labview install and run that.  Nothing happens.  What's the deal?

This laptop has had several versions of LV installed over time -  6.1, 7.1, 8.0, 8.2.1, 8.5  I uninstalled all NI software and still see this problem. 

Thanks for any ideas!

[Mathan]

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speakers22222222 wrote:

Nothing happens.  What's the deal?

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What is actually happening? any popup error messages? have you checked whether ur CD-ROM working with other cd's(just a try don't hesitate.).

Thanks,

Mathan

[speakers22222222]

The CD ROM is ok; I can use it with other CDs.  In fact, I copied the files from the CD to a folder on the hard drive and the same thing happens.  Nothing.  I run setup.exe, I see the "wait" cursor for about half a second, and then nothing.  No pop up messages, errors, or anything.  According to the task manager there is no process running. 

[speakers22222222]

I seem to have stepped around the problem.  I tried killing all unnecessary processes and enabling the RPC locator service.  Then the LV installation would give me a "Severe - Wrong OS" popup.  After clicking OK on that the installation proceeded without any problems.

[Ray.R]

It installed after complaining about the OS being wrong?

Could you start the application after it was installed?

-curious-

[speakers22222222]

Yes, I started LabVIEW and everything is fine now.  I just clicked through the "Wrong OS" error.  Weird.

[Ray.R]

LOL!  Well, as long as it is fine, that's the main thing. 😉  Just strange...  Hummm...