Installer keeps popping up

[binxboll]

As Administrator I did a full install of NI Developer Suite on a Windows 2000 machine. Now when logged on as an ordinary user, every time I start Internet Explorer, the installer for Flexmotion 5.1 pops up and then dies with an error: "Error 1706.No valid source could be found for product NI FlexMotion 5.1. The Windows Installer cannot continue." I click OK and it goes away, only to re-appear the next time I start IE. What is the best way to fix this?

[Jack_A.]

Sounds like something went wrong during the initial install. You can try to uninstall and reinstall NI FlexMotion (or if you don't use any of our motion controllers you can uninstall FlexMotion and not reinstall it). You should do this through Add Remove Programs. If you don't see NI-FlexMotion listed, it means that it was installed with LabVIEW. Then you need to go into LabVIEW and instead of removing all of LabVIEW, you can just select to remove NI-FlexMotion.

Jack Arnold
Application Engineer
National Instruments

[binxboll]

In the win2k add/remove programs control panel, FlexMotion 5.1 appears separately from LabView. When I go into the LabView installer, FlexMotion 5.0 appears. It was installed, I uninstalled it. That did not fix the problem. Then I went into the FlexMotion 5.1 installer and tried to Repair it. That did not work either. Then I went into the FlexMotion 5.1 installer and tried remove it. It gave me a warning that some components are shared with LV and other NI software. If I chose to uninstall those components, I might break LV etc. I chose to leave the shared components installed. Now I still get the installer popping up for ordinary users whenever they run IE. Should I just go ahead and remove all of FlexMotion 5.1, despite the dire warnings?

BTW, this is a brand-
new machine with a clean, first-time installation of Developer Suite, using all the default install options. No errors appeared during the install. I was very careful. Why is it so messed up? I paid about 6 kilodollars for this software. This is very aggravating.

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