Why do i keep getting installation errors when I do a default install of TestStand 2010 SP1

[ATE_Dude_22]

On several different machines over the past few months I have enountered issues with Installing/Repairing/Re-Installing TestStand. For whatever reason, if the TestStand folder exists in the National Instruments directory, then TestSTand doesn't properly install critical elements or register dll's.

Does anyone know a better way of dealing with this other than having to uninstall all NI software and starting over??

[chaka1234]

Hello ATE_Dude_22,

Did you make sure that you have all the admin rights before you install TestStand? You can run the installer as an administrator, this will avoid you several issues.

Carmen C.

[ATE_Dude_22]

Yes, I am an adminsitrator, and have disabled UAC on Windows 7 machines, something is causing CLID registry errors when this occurs, and after that the only successful way i've found to re-install is to re-image the HDD and start fresh?!?!?

What I'm not understanding is why when repair installations are performed, it fails to install anything in the TestStand directory inside the National Instruments directory???

[dug9000]

Try turning UAC back on. Please let us know if this works. Also are you perhaps running the OS in some sort of high security mode that would limit what system processes and/or service can do?

-Doug

[ATE_Dude_22]

UAC controls ON or OFF seem to have no effect on whether or not this problem occurs, it seems to happen only if there was a previous installation of Test Stand on the machine in question. A Reinstallation/Repair does not work unless the TestStand directories are completely scrubbed from the machine, and even then I have had these registry errors occur.

[dug9000]

What are the registry errors you are getting? What application is giving you the errors?

-Doug

[ATE_Dude_22]

These are typically the errors I get, all coming from either TestStand or Version Selection Tool.

[ATE_Dude_22]

And this

[PeanutButterOven]

ATE_Dude_22,

The errors seem to indicate that TestStand cannot locate the CVI adapter dll, and the subsequent dlls the adapter uses. Please attempt to locate and if necessary move the dlls associated with the error into the appropriate search path. This should alleviate the -17004 error.

[ATE_Dude_22]

I understand that, but if you try and register the dll with RegServ32, that's what produces the registration error. The only way I've found to be able to properly install TestStand after these errors is to format the HDD with a pristine version of the OS, and start over (which really sucks and is extremely time consuming)