Ok so here is another thread to add amongst the sea of other uninstall issues. I have attempted to locate a similar issue, but I didn't turn up anything that could help me. As a disclaimer, its ok to laugh at this one.
This thread also starts similar to some others. I made a boneheaded decision to delete the main folder "National Instruments."
(The reason for actually doing so is because I have a professional edition and a student edition. I wanted to keep these both separate by their respective licenses but my first pass at installing didn't work. I let them both install to the main folder and figured that they would use their own serial numbers :: WRONG ::. So then I decided that I would put the system into SAFE mode, move that folder, and reinstall the professional version (which sucks to have the STUDENT version watermark when it will be used to create files for customers. This installation failed ... and well the end story is that I ended up deleting both the folders <new and old> and wanted to start fresh. I am aware of the registry, but thought everything would just "over-write" itself. Wrong wrong wrong.)
So there ya have it. I'm sitting on top of a pile of #### I made for myself. I have nothing in the add/remove program list, no uninstaller, a mess in my registry, and nothing will install (since it thinks its still magically there!). So, essentially MAYDAY!! This is a brand new computer and I ultimately want to have both versions of labview (and kept separate by their serial numbers). I would appreciate any and all advice. I've learned my lesson, so please don't remind me :).
Thanks.
I currently run windows 7. The labview versions are 2010 (professional) and 2011 (student).
