Labview 2011 Run time Engine Installation Problem

[RobertD]

I'm trying to install Labview 2011 Run time Engine as downloaded from here: http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2534/lang/en

on my Windows 7 Pro laptop. I have the hard drive split in C and D drive with plenty of space on each.

Initially the office IT guy tried doing the installation as an administrator and for some reason installed to "D:\Program Files\National Instruments\" for some reason. It went through the installation with no errors but after restarting it seems only a couple of the components are installed. I have never installed anything else from NI on this computer, but after the installation I can only see NI Licence Manager and Datasocket under National Instruments in the Start menu. If I re-run setup it seems to think that everything is installed and that there is something there to remove, but there clearly isn't.

Afterwards the IT guy gave me administrator privileges on my account so I have been playing around with various combinations of uninstalling and re-installing myself but with the same result each time.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi Robert,

you installed the RunTimeEngine.

What else do you expect to see in your Start menu after doing so? What do you miss?

[RobertD]

Wow, it all just clicked in to place for me. I was trying to run a .vi file after installation and expecting it to work. Duh, I need to compile it into an executable first.

Many thanks for pointing out the thing that has been invisible but staring me in the face for the last 3 hours...