Online / Detailed LabVIEW Help (2025) is SLOW and wrong language (BUG IMHO)

[Henrik_Volkers]

new W11 computer .. new LabVIEW 2025 Q1 ...

But why is the LabVIEW Help online (OK search reveals, that this is since LV2023?? , I came from 2019 😉 )

- so slow? , is it to awoid reading details about a used vi?  

   some postings link to an app NI HELP Preferences  (2023) , but that's not on my 2025 system?

   Why there is no option in the preferences? Or have I overseen it?

- even bad, for good reasons I only use the english version of LabVIEW (even if my OS/browser is set to german)

and now the shown online HELP is shown in german! WTF , and of course no button on the webpage to switch to english help.

I would consider this a bug!

Sorry NI .. that is no progress in the IDE

EDIT: How do I get a offline LV2025-Help?  (Hey, my new computer is portable, maybe I'm now able to code/draw in the wild (offline).

[cordm]

There is a tool just for toggling offline help:

How to Use NI Offline Help Viewer in LabVIEW Version 2022 and Later?

The online help is painfully slow, especially if the website decides to redirect you to your language after having loaded the english version...

You can change the website language at the very bottom of the page with the country flag.

[Henrik_Volkers]

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@cordm wrote:

There is a tool just for toggling offline help:

How to Use NI Offline Help Viewer in LabVIEW Version 2022 and Later?

The online help is painfully slow, especially if the website decides to redirect you to your language after having loaded the english version...

You can change the website language at the very bottom of the page with the country flag.

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That Help link didn't work, since there is no NI HELP Preferences app on my PC...

The language setting at the bottom was overseen by me...

If I set the location (language) on the bottom of the web help, my profle (location) seems to be set to english (but haven't looked into that detail now)

However I just found the solution: There is no NI Help Preferences app on my PC (even if all my NI (LV) installations are english). 

But after some more search I found there is a

NI-Hilfe - Einstellungen app that links to

"C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\Shared\Offline Help Viewer\NIHelpPreferences.exe"

WTF I didn't searched in the 32bit parts , hoped to be 64 bit now 😄