slow installation from Windows-7 made installer

[GabbyG]

Hi 

I run Labview 2011 on several development machines.

Recently I tried a newly built installer from a Windows 7 32 Bit professional on an Windows XP-Professional.

The installation would not even run, but slug (if that words exists) along with lots of disk access many many minutes.

Alarmed I cross-checked  on the Win7 where it would run smoothly.

I then made a very simple Hello-World-Project with just a single vi. It showed the same behaviour.

All Microsoft or NI updates should have been updated by then.

Has anybody come across a similar problem?

I'd appreciate a comment.

Gabi

(I hope the newly installed LV 2012 did not ruin the 2011 ?)  

[LoCa]

Dear Mrs Tillmann,

i'm not sure that i got your Problem. You build an Installer with LabVIEW 2011 on
a WINDOWS 7 32 bit computer. Now you will use this installer on a WINDOWS
XP-Professional.

When you install the programm which behavior do you see?

Best Regards

Lorenz Casper

(AE-Germany)

[GabbyG]

Hi

I found another thread going on " Incredibly Slow LabVIEW Installer". (Sorry I don't know how to link )

There the same problem is described. With the usual solutions (like disable the security programs , who would do that when they are needed most ???)

It may be a problem withe Windows MSI. But that should be solved after the first like installer ran.

It is much faster if I remove the LV-Runtime-package.

Thanks

Gabi 

[LoCa]

Hallo,

if you remove the Runtime from the installer it will be much faster.
So if you have installed the runtime already on your target Systems - remove it from the Installer at it will speed up a lot.

Best Regards

Lorenz

[GabbyG]

Hi Lorenz

Thank you for repeating my observation.

I am sure you understand this is not a solution if I'm handing the installer to a customer for the first time and he is complaining  about an installation time of ten minutes.

[LoCa]

Dear Mrs. Tilmann,

i builded an installer with a little programm and the LabVIEW Runtime. It took 3 minutes to install the Programm (LabVIEW Runtime was allready installed on the computer). The Installation Time depends on the size of your code and the additional Software which you embed in in your installer.

The installation of the Runtime could take some minutes, because there will be installed several libraries, to run all kinds of LabVIEW programms.

If you have allready installed the LabVIEW Runtime, the installation should only take some minutes.

Best regards

Lorenz Casper