Feature Request: Skip Checking for Updates

[m3nth]

Multisim and Ultiboard check for updates every time they are started, which seems to take a fair amount of time (depends).  This becomes especially apparent when something keeps crashing, or for some other reason where one or both of the programs have to be restarted several times in succession.  It would be nice to be able to hit Escape and skip onto the good stuff instead of waiting for them to check for updates each time they start.  Or maybe make it like a once a day check instead of doing it each time they start.

[GarretF]

Hi m3nth:

You do have some control over how often the check for updates run.

From the Start menu, select Programs > National Instruments > Circuit Design Suite > Check For Updates. Then click Settings, and select "Don't run automatically, I will check for updated manually."

You also noted that something keeps crashing. If this something is Multisim or Ultiboard and you can reproduce the problem (a particular file, set of actions, etc), please either contact support (ewbsupport@ni.com, you can put my name in the subject line if you wish support for forward the email to me) or post the file/instructions here so that I can try and reproduce it and ensure that the issue is resolved in the next release.

[m3nth]

It hasn't been crashing regularly--that was awhile ago... I've been starting it up regularly though and having to wait every time.  Thanks for pointing out those settings, I'll definitely be looking those up.

[kittmaster]

If your running XP, look at the event viewer in the control panel under the adminstrative tools to see if it reports what caused the crash in MS/UB. Usually if the updater doesn't reach the server, it just times out and continues loading.

Also verify that your device manager has all the devices with drivers and there are not "unknown devices". MS may be looking at the devices for all the other stuff it loads and getting hung up on an unknown device. I saw that in a couple of machines where that happened, changed nothing but loaded the correct driver for the unknown, restarted MS and voila, it started working.

[m3nth]

Just a note that I disabled the automatic update checking and it worked like a charm... it still gives the message starting up but skips to "Done" immediately and continues on.