Windows 7 Starter Edition and LabWindows/CVI

[Martin_Manger]

Hello,

I have two questions/problems concerning a application written with CVI 9.0.1 and CVI 2009 respectively under Windows Vista Business.

First if I have a distribution package of my software (or a distribution package build from a sample) and want to install it on a netbook with Windows 7 Starter Edition the setup displays the following error message:

"This product does not support Windows Starter Edition."

Is it just a restriction of the setup program, or will CVI never support the Starter Edition?

We often sell these netbooks together with our measuring units as an input/output device. But I think that in the near future all netbooks will use Windows 7 instead of XP, and mostly the Starter Edition.

So if this is not supported will it help to update the netbooks to Windows 7 Home Premium? I already tested Windows 7 Professional and it works, but I don't want to install Professional on a netbook...

My second question also concerns the Starter Edition.

I build a distribution kit from the sample workspace 'interp.cws' (Curve Fitting and Interpolation) with the runtime engine installed in the application directory. If I run the .msi package instead of the setup.exe then the software was installed on the system.

Then I can start the software, and it seems to work. But if the software calls a function from the Advanced Analysis Library (e.g. for Spline Interpolation) it doesn't work. With remote debugging I've found out that there was a non-fatal runtime error "The analysis library DLL was not found or could not be loaded" during the calls of the spline functions.

The same sample runs fine with Windows 7 Professional.

Is this also a restriction of CVI and will be the reason (or one of the reasons) to not support the Starter Edition?

Or is there a workaround for these error?

Best regards,

M.S.

[Mert_A.]

CVI (and other NI products) do not support the Starter Editions of Windows. Windows 7 Home would work fine.

Regarding the second question, the reason Analysis support was not installed is that by running the .msi directly, you only installed the interp program file(s). You did not install any of the other runtime support packages. When you run setup.exe, this mangages installing all of the separate packages that make up the distribution. I assume you tried running the .msi in order to sidestep the OS launch restriction that setup.exe imposes. Unfortunately that's not a viable workaround.

Hope this helps.

Mert A.

National Instruments

[Martin_Manger]

Thanks for your fast reply.

It's a great pity that Windows 7 Starter Edition is not supported. I assume there are no plans for future releases to support Starter Edition, right?

A couple of customers of our measuring devices uses these netbooks as a small, handy user interface to these devices.

But I assume we have to live with this restrictions and only deliver netbooks with WinXP as long as we can and upgrade Starter Edition netbooks to Win7 Home Premium after that.

Best regards,

M.S.

[Mert_A.]

Future support of Windows 7 Starter Edition is under consideration. I cannot make any claims that it will or will not ultimately be supported, but it is actively being evaluated as a possibility. Because the Windows 7 Starter Edition removes many of the restrictions that were present in earlier Windows Starter Editions, it has a better chance of being supported.

Mert A.

National Instruments

[Jon_S. · Accepted solution]

National Instruments is supporting Windows 7 Starter; however, right now our installations are set to halt if any Windows Starter Edition is detected.  This is because XP and Vista Starter Editions were marketed to emerging markets and had severe performance limitations.

You will need to make sure that your specific product supports Windows 7.

Message Edited by Jon S. on 01-06-2010 10:12 AM