LabView 8 hangs while starting

[Marc R]

A few days ago my LabView 8 stopped working.  It appears on the task bar, but no window appears.

It also shows up in the task manager,eventually changing from "running" to "Not Responding" after a while.

I have removed and reinstalled LabView using the CD ROM, and installed Windows XP Pro sp 2 to no avail.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[minnellac]

I had the same thing happen to me last week. It seemed like it was one of the NI services crashing. At one point I even restarted the machine and fresh from booting, LabVIEW was sitting in the taskbar, stalled. I tried to do a repair installation of LabVIEW 8 and that failed at step 19 when a service could not be stopped (sorry, I don't remember which one). I think I was able to get the Repair operation to complete by rebooting, stopping all the NI services manually, and then doing a Repair. After that, everything seems fine.

I don't know what caused the problem in the first place, but I'm up and running again now.

Good luck,
Chris