Why does LabVIEW take all day to install on one PC?

[rpursley8]

Any time I have to upgrade, I'm dead in the water for a full day.  I don't know of any other software that takes nearly as long to install.  Any ideas?

[RavensFan]

There are a lot of components to install.

I wouldn't say it takes all day.  It seems to take me anywhere from 1-3 hours.  The device drivers DVD seems to be particularly long.

I'm able to do other stuff while it is running.  Not too much baby sitting is required, but occasionally need to check on it to see if the DVD's need to be swapped.

[teritask]

and if you encounter problems with Labview, the first thing tech support tells you is to uninstall EVERYTHING and then reinstall...another wasted day.

[BenBabb]

There are many things that would contribute to installation times.  It could be your computer hardware is aging?  You have several other tasks running in the back ground taking CPU time?  You have anti virus running while you install?  You have selected every option available when you are setting up your installation?

I find when I install LabVIEW is averages about three hours as well.  I think you can create a network installer which will not require you to swap disks.  You could launch it at the end of the day and have it done in the morning!

Hope that helps.

[rpursley8]

It took me 2.5 hours to install the update from the first 3 dvds, an then an additional 4.5 hours for the device driver dvd.

I have a 1 year old computer running Windows Vista 64-bit with 12 GB of RAM.  The only thing that I can think of is the McAfee antivirus software.  I can turn it off, but the admins here turn it back on every 5 minutes.

[RavensFan]

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@rpursley8 wrote:

I have a 1 year old computer running Windows Vista 64-bit with 12 GB of RAM.  The only thing that I can think of is the McAfee antivirus software.  I can turn it off, but the admins here turn it back on every 5 minutes.

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Ha Ha.  Defeat those admins!

Unplug the PC from the network so they can't turn it back on!

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Fragmented hard disk? I typically run a defrag before and after installation of any major software package.

-AK2DM

[teritask]

I've been using Labview for approx. 12 years and it takes longer and longer to install, each new version. I downloaded the newest DAQmx drivers last week only to be surprised that it no longer fits on a CD. Luckily I had a large data stick so I could install it on a different computer. I know there is a way to spread it out over several disks but I didn't have the energy to figure it out. It would be nice if National broke it down for us on their site.

[rpursley8]

We are required to run some policy agent software on the machines, so it doesn't have to be connected to the network for it to turn itself back on.

[RavensFan]

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@rpursley8 wrote:

We are required to run some policy agent software on the machines, so it doesn't have to be connected to the network for it to turn itself back on.

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I was actually just joking.  But there have been times where I needed to do something like that to defeat IT's attempts to save us from ourselves.  In one case, I found that the corporate virus scanner slowed down my data acquisition program.  But when I disabled the virus process, it would turn itself back on.  It was a matter of finding some service that was running to monitor whether the virus scan process was running and disable that service.