Creating an installer

[Andrew W]

Howdy Christian,

Removing your old self-made installer distribution information from the registry should fix this issue.  First, it should be noted that editing the registry carries inherent risks. Make sure you are familiar with the registry before editing the registry, manually or programmatically. Making a backup is always a good idea.

Take the follow steps to remove your self-made distribution info:

1. Open the registry editor (Start>>Run, and type in "regedit").
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\National Instruments\Common\Installer\Distributions
3. Find your distribution within this key.  You should be able to recognize it by the "Title" value.
4. Export your specific distribution first (just to be safe), and then delete it from the registry.  You should be exporting & removing a key that is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\National Instruments\Common\Installer\Distributions\<your Distribution Product ID>
5. Try to create the installer again.  This time it should ask for a different distribution for the given part that it is snagging on.

Regards,

Andrew W

[Christian_nor]

Thanks!!

Now it finally works! I got rid of my selfmade installers and everything seems to be OK 🙂

[antennaguy]

Had the same problems, and the registry edit worked fine - got it!

But, instead of saying never to install our own software on our own machines - what if I want use my software? - am I safe to make and use a basic installer that does NOT contain any additional installers (since I have installed the drivers and support apps already on the development computer)?

[becktho]

Hi

This shouldn't be a problem. I also once developed a program using LV and then installed it on my own pc. Basically this program was intended just to be used on my system.

I never had problems caused by this application

Thomas