why does LV not close, but remains in memory, even when it has stopped running?

[Rikard]

Whenever I run LV7.1 on this Panasonic Toughbook CF18 (XP pro sp3) after stopping or closing LV, it remains open on the toolbar and in the task manager; the applications window indicates "not responding" and I must close it manually. the Processes window shows about 25-30k memory usage for each instance. If I run an exe again, each time it leaves another program open on the toolbar and in memory.  It does the same thing whether I'm running an exe written in LV, or just opening the LV71, even without loading or running a vi. I suspect it is a setting somewhere in windows setup but I don't know what to look for.

LV has done this ever since it was installed on this machine, several years ago, and can be annoying when I do a lot of work with it.  Is there somthing I can do to make LV close completely when exiting?

[ninlmartijn]

Dear Rikard,

thank you so much for your post on our webforum. Are you using the quit labview function? So functions palette => programming => application control.

Best regards,

[BCho]

Hey Rikard,

So, what you are seeing is that each VI that you open in the development environment remains open in memory even after you close the VI? When you manually close a VI, you still see it located in task manager and it is listed as not responding. The only way you can release the memory and remove it from task manager is to manually 'end task?' This is also true for executables, even though you close the .exe it still remains in memory? Have you seen this same behavior on a different computer, or does it seem unique to this particular machine/setup? Does this happen with any other programs?  Perhaps some screen shots of your desktop and task manager would be helpful in clearing up what is actually happening.