LabVIEW Freezes on Start

[diarmaede]

As of about a month ago, whenever I start LabVIEW 2017, it freezes up for about 20 minutes before I can start using it.  This is probably due to some new, nefarious features my company added to our firewall, but our IT guys tell me there is nothing they can do about it.  So my question is, can I somehow prevent LabVIEW from trying to communicate via the internet when I start it?  Is there some setting I can use to prevent LabVIEW from "phoning home" every time it opens?  Thanks.

[aputman]

What kind of IT department says "I'm sorry...you can't do your job because I won't do mine."  You can't fix stupid, unfortunately. 

Anyways, have you tried starting LabVIEW as an administrator? 

Are there any toolkits that are not activated that may be causing this?

[RavensFan]

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@aputman wrote:

What kind of IT department says "I'm sorry...you can't do your job because I won't do mine."  You can't fix stupid, unfortunately. 

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It seems to be just about every IT department now-a-days.

[Kyle97330]

You could disable the ni.com updates that scroll on the LabVIEW splash screen.  See this thread from quite a while ago (first and second posts, mostly).

If that doesn't help, and if it truly is a network firewall and not a local firewall or virus scanner problem, you could try turning on "Airplane mode" while you start up LabVIEW to see if that speeds it up.