Problems with the installation of LabVIEW 6.1 on Windows 2000!

[Schlumpf]

Windows 2000 crashes while installing LabVIEW 6.1, and the computer is unusable after the installation!

[javi 328]

This also happened to me. Hopefully you are attempting to run LabView on a dedicated computer. Ours had "issues" with some of the other software we were running. Here's what we did: We re-imaged the computer (backed up everything and re-loaded the OS). Computer has been up and running excellent ever since. There was a lot of useless software originally on it, we took it all off. If you are able, only run what you need on it. Also, we have found that LabVIEW 6 runs strangely on computers with less than 128 MB of RAM. Our project computer currently has 320 MB of RAM (and 40 GB HD) and it runs perfectly.

Hope this helps. If you have a specific error code, let me know. Otherwise, from what you have posted, I believe this is the answer.

[Jeremy Braden]

This is not normal installation behavior. LabVIEW has been installed on thousands of computers without any problems. I recommend contacting NI for support. It may be that nothing can be done but it is more likey there is a solution. Plus if there is a problem with LabVIEW, they should be informed about it. Goto www.ni.com/ask so send email to support. You can also initiate phone support from that page as well.

[bsb]

If you have a "distributed" or network version of Win2000, you may have an old or corrupted mfc42.dll or some other OS file. Try updating to SP3 to get rid of the errors.