When opening PT Assembler, Windows tries & fails to open NI Run-Time engine

[rhazelton]

I am using PT Assembler, a front-end for the Panorama Tools software bundle, to stitch microscope images taken by LabVIEW using the QCam Suite.  Whenever I attempt to open PT Assembler, Windows informs me that it needs to configure the NI LabVIEW Run-Time Engine 7.1.1, which it cannot as it is not installed.  After cancelling the configuration 4-5 times, my program opens and runs without errors.

PT Assembler has absolutely nothing to do with with NI or Labview as far as I can determine, so why does Windows try to open it with the run-time engine?   I attempted to install the 7.1.1 engine from ni.com but was informed that it was unavailable.  Is there any way I can keep Windows from attempting to use the engine?  I could install a later version of the engine and hope it works, but I am a bit leery about how it might affect my program.

[Brinoceros]

Hi rhazelton,

If this program hasn't been created in LabVIEW, then I'm not sure why it would be doing this..  However, you should be able to download the 7.1.1 run-time here.  Give it a try and see what happens!

Regards, 

[rhazelton]

Thanks for your suggestion!

I tried to install 7.1.1, but it failed because a later version was already installed (and if so why would windows be trying to open an earlier version?  So confused...) but I installed 8.2.1 instead, which did work.  Thank you!