Why does nilm.exe take 1/2 of my CPU?

[clanderson]

I recently installed Labview 8.2 on my Dell Precision M90 laptop (1.83GHz Duo Core 1GB RAM). Since then, when I look at the processes in the Windows Task Manager, I've noticed that nilm.exe is taking about 50% of my CPU power. I understand that this is the National Instruments License Manager. Why is it taking so much of my CPU, even when I'm not running Labview? And how can I resolve this issue?

Thanks!

-Clint

[smercurio_fc]

Chances are it's probably conflicting with another service or program. You don't really need that service running to have LabVIEW work unless you have some toolkit or other software that explicitly uses it. I have mine set to "Manual" in the Services manager and LabVIEW works just fine. You could even set it to "Disabled" and it would probably still work.