I made a really foolish mistake. I tried to remove labview by clicking
"remove" under the add/ remove programs window in the control panel. It
asked me for the installation disk.
Silly me.
What I REALLY should have done was click "change". That brings up an
option to remove labview. It even works. Without the installation disk.
How could I have missed this?? Change means remove!! Does this mean remove means change??
It was SOOOO obvious. Sorry to waste everyone's time, I'm sure no one else was ever confused by this.