Unable to open Lab-view - getting pop-up "unable to open resourse files"

[Ashley.w]

Hi

I have had Lab-view 7.1 running on my PC  for months.  On loading up this morning I got the pop-up "unable to open resourse files".

Presumably this is a fatal error and I need to uninstall then reinstall.  The rest of my PC applications are working fine.  Has anybody else had this problem?

Regards

Ashley

[chrisger]

hi there

when i rename or remove the directory  ..\National Instruments\LabVIEW 7.1\resource i got the same error message as you. check this directory. i attached a list of contents of my LV 7.1 resource directory. the contents of your own directory may differ.

[Ashley.w]

Hi Thanks for the reply.

THat doesn't seem to be the problem.

Do you know how I can uninstall all National instruments software?  There doesn't seem to be an uninstall executable on the installation disk. 

Thanks

Ashley

[PJS]

PC or Mac?  PC use the control panel, add/remove programs, National instruments software and then select your components.

unfortunately NI does a horrible job of removing EVERYTHING that they put there, so hopefully the stock uninstall does the trick.  Otherwise you will have your work cut out for you cleaning the registry manually.

[Ashley.w]

Many thanks for the reply.

I had a horrible time yesterday sorting this out and have no idea what caused the problem. but managed to cure it in the end.

After doing a system restoration to the previous day I was able to remove NI software from the control panel add/remove programs facility. Before the system restoration the NI software did appear here but I was not able to uninstall it.  Some corruption had occurred somewhere that prevented the uninstaller from working as well as preventing Lab-VIEW from accessing the resource files.   Even after the system restoration Lab-VIEW would not function but I was able to uninstall all NI software.  On reinstallation everything worked fine but the fixing process took almost 3 frustrating hours!