Why does my moving/deleting some shortcuts in the start menu cause LabVIEW to try and access the installer CD, whenever I open a VI?

[schellrd]

I'm running LabVIEW 6.1 and I moved the National Instruments folder contents into an Applications\LabVIEW folder that I already had. Afterwards whenever I open a VI, LabVIEW tries to access the installer CD half a dozen times. If I just cancel the installer requests, it will eventually open the VI and everything is fine (until my next LabVIEW session).

[Dennis_Knutson]

Windows doesn't it like it when you just move applications around. There are items in the registry that point to locations of files that are no longer valid. If you did the same thing to Word or Excel, you'd probably get lots of weird messages as well. What you should have done, was an uninstall and then reinstall to the different folder. You might be able to fix things now by using regedit and updating all of the paths. If you miss something, however, you might still have problems - especially when it's time to do an uninstall. The best thing to do might be to move everything back to the original location and do the uninstall. There are utility programs available to do the sort of move you did but all of the ones I know of have to be active before you do any
moving.

[schellrd]

I'm not moving the applications around. I'm moving the "National Instruments" folder in the Start Menu\Programs\ path. It's the folder that contains the various shortcuts to the LabVIEW apps.

[Jeremy Braden]

What happens when you move it back? or delete it entirely?

[schellrd]

Don't know. I initially attributed the error to some Windows updates (security patches) that I had loaded earlier in the day (figuring that I had screwed the registry up). But after inserting the install CD everything again worked fine. Then I noticed that it had recreated the shortcut folder (that I'd deleted earlier (before the Windows updates)), I moved the shortcut folder to where I wanted it, and the cycle began anew. But I can't figure out why LabVIEW should care about a shortcut folders location.

[JeanPierre]

It seems it is related to "self healing" feature of Microsoft Installer. Somehow the LabVIEW installation is checked for the integrity of installed files and is automatically repaired when files are missing/replaced. However, I don't know how this has been automatically enabled on your computer...