Changing the language settings in DAQmx

[Mirabelle]

I am in Germany and so my operating Windows XP system is in german. It seems given a previous question (http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=231&message.id=4741&query.id=163167#M4741 ) that DAQmx takes the language settings of the operating system, in this case german. It was suggested to change the language settings of the operating system but, correct me if I'm wrong, but that is not possible to do without re-installing (not to mention first having to re-purchase windows in the specified language). Is there really no other way of changing the language??? DAQmx is installed with 5 different language packs but there seems to be no way of choosing the one we want. Which is quite a hassle when its your first time using the driver and you don't even understand the commands...

Any help greatly appreciated

M

[Jochen · Accepted solution]

The DAQmx installer chooses the language package according to the country settings of the OS. You don't have to purchase and install a different version of Windows. All you need to do is to go to "Systemsteuerung -> Regions- und Sprachoptionen" and change the country settings from "German" to the country of your choice. Then install the NI-DAQmx software. If you have already installed NI-DAQmx, then uninstall it and reinstall after changing the country settings.

Kind regards,

Jochen Klier

National Instruments

[Mirabelle]

Thank you ever so much. It actually wasn't necessary to uninstall and reinstall DAQmx for it to work though 🙂

[betelgeuse84]

Hi,

This doesn't work for version 14 of NI-DAQmx. What can I do to change the language from German to English?

Thanks!

[doughnut]

I had the same issue - all VIs in English, but DAQmx and its subVIs were in German.  

I completely uninstalled/reinstalled LabVIEW and the issue persisted.  I'm running LabVIEW 2014 (14.0, 32-bit) on Windows 8 64-bit, and I have another system running the LabVIEW 2014 on Windows 7 64-bit affected by the same issue.  All possible language and region settings on both computers are English (United States).

I was able to fix the issue by downloading the newest standalone DAQmx software (14.5 at time of writing this)

http://www.ni.com/download/ni-daqmx-14.5/5212/en/

and just let it do a typical installation, over my current software, without uninstalling anything specific.  Everything seems to be fixed now - hope this helps someone else.

[bobcampbell]

NI: please sort out this language issue. We shouldn't be having to re-install everything to get the language changed.