LabWindows and Vista

[LockheedJoe]

We're about to move to VIsta using LabWindows and I'm sure a lot of people out there already have experiance with this.

Could y'all let me know or give links for:

- What to whatch out for

- Know issues

- Driver availiblity

- Any problems using older versions of LabWindows with Vista

- Any thing else I may need to know.

Thanks

Joe V

[JonathanN · Accepted solution]

Hi Joe,

From an NI perspective, a majority of our Vista information can be found on the page National Instruments Product Compatibility for Microsoft Windows Vista. This page lists out driver, software, toolkit, etc information regarding Vista. 

A few side CVI specific notes I can add are:

• CVI 8.1.1 was our first release that supported Vista.
• All of our known issues are documentated in the CVI Readme
• Using older versions of CVI (8.1 and earlier) on Vista isn't supported and we don't claim compatibility. However, with that said, we did do some basic testing to see what worked. The majority of areas that didn't work involved Vista's UAC so if you turn that off, older versions of CVI will work slightly better. Even with UAC turned off, there were a few issues that we hit. All in all, I would suggest using 8.1.1 and later to be safe.

Hope this helps some.

Best Regards,

[LockheedJoe]

Thanks for the info, this was the kind of info I was looking for.

Thanks!