Excel Toolkit GOOP Stopped Working

[jon-w9]

I spent the better part of a day searching the forums for a solution, and I am a bit stuck.

I wrote a program some time ago where I would open a chosen Excel file, then read measurements from a multimeter, then drop those values in the active cell.

This  .exe has worked swimmingly for several years.

However, just this week IT replaced a PC on the floor and the program is not longer opening Excel.

I am using the Philips/GOOP Excel plugins for Labview.  The code is written in Labview 2012.

The trouble PC is Windows 7, 64-bit and office 2007.  This program is still functioning on a similar setup (OS and Office) without issue.  The only difference is the make/model of PC.

I have tried multiple other Excel vi's and get no response.  This leads me to believe that it is an ActiveX issue, as I am not getting an error or anything.

So, my question is, can I "update" Activex to get this working, is there somplace to look to see what the issue is, or do I need to start finding a way to re-write the progam without this plugin?

Anay and all assistance would be appreciated.

[kbbersch]

With Windows 7 my first thought would be security and permission problems.  I've run into that before.

[jon-w9]

What permissions would that be?  The account that I am using has "Administraor" privleges.

[kbbersch]

I had a VI that worked on my developement machine but not on the lab machine.  Both had Win7 and LV2013.  Both accounts were Admins.  I requested IT look into it and they changed some settings, I don't know wht, that solved the problems.  Win7 has nice security but it really gets in the way sometimes.  There are times when you need to provide permission for a program to access certain files or folders or make chnages on the machine.  The dialogs for that don't always pop up when a program tries to do it, things just don't happen.  I'm not up on Win7 permissions like I have been on previous Windows versions so I'm not sure of the settings but that would be the first place I'd start looking.

Of course, I could be wrong about this but with what you're saying it looks to me like the most likely possibility.

[aputman]

If it is a new computer with a new install of Office, make sure to start Excel and let it fully startup (outside of Labview).  There are dialog boxes and activation boxes on a new install that may interfere with your program operating properly. 

[mikeporter]

Also, did the version of Excel change? There have been many problems over the years caused by MS changing the Excel API in non compatible ways.

Mike ..