NI-MAX Simulated Counter

[bhajder]

For LabVIEW development, I created a Simulated NI-6612 counter device in NI-MAX. After that, whenever I tried to open NI-MAX, it froze while "loading plugins". I develop on a Windows 7 64-bit VM and the only way to continue to use the VM after NI-MAX froze was to kill the Vmware VMX task on the Windows 10 Host. I tried many things to cure this, (simply "repairing" NI-MAX did not cure the problem) but I found upgrading MAX from version 15 to 16 allowed NI-MAX to run again as expected, an apparent cure. So I tried creating a simulated NI-6612 device, and the same problem started happening again.

I would like to try to "remove" the Simulated NI-6612 device without uninstalling/re-installing NI-MAX. Does anyone know how to remove a device from the current configuration without opening NI-MAX?

[Salazar.Slytherin]

You can reset the MAX configuration without opening up NI MAX.

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/C3C29EC327EFB0A586257AF3007C3B7C

However, this would also clear any other simulated devices and tasks that you have in MAX.

[bhajder]

Thank you Salazar for the quick reply! I am currently off-site on another project but will check this solution out soon, and will update the forum with the results.

[bhajder]

This solution worked to allow me to open NI-MAX again without it locking up. I still need to figure out why adding a simulated device seemed to cause a problem..