How to start an 8.2 app in LabVIEW 2011

Question

This has been a problem that I've been trying to deal with for the past week to no avail. 
In short:
The 8.2s which worked on an XP machine were openned on a Windows 8 with LabVIEW 2011, made into an executable, put back on to the Windows XP to see if it will still all worked, and it does not. 
In detail:
I had a ready made, working application made in LabVIEW 8.2. The goal is to update all old software to the new LabVIEW 2011, but to still make it work. The problem is, after making it run in edit mode for at least a little bit (after debugging common errors with openning in a newer version), after making an executable and putting it on the machine it used to run on, it won't run. The program will not communicate with the machine and will give the following errors which are, my eyes, things that should not be happening after working in edit mode.
Two error codes received:
1)  One or more Configuration File(s) are not available. Please Check the Hardware configuration!
2) {
    Error 7 occured at Openfile+.vi: Open file
    Possible reason(s):
    LabVIEW: File not found. The file might have been mover or deleted, or the file path might be incorrectly formatted for the operating system.
    For example, use\ as path separators on Windows, : on Mac OS X, and / on Linus. Verify tht the path is correct using the command prompt or file       explorer.
    =========================================
    NI-488: Non-existent board.
Please, if anyone has had the same or a similar issue and can give any sort of feedback or thoughts, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!
-Hub25

Answer 1

Bob_Schor wrote:
There are a number of issues here.  First, LabVIEW 8.2 cannot be installed on Windows 7 (to say nothing of Windows 8), and LabVIEW 2011 cannot be installed on Windows XP.  I'm not sure whether executables can be built across Windows 7/XP boundaries, but I'm pretty sure that, at a minimum, you'd need to install the LabVIEW 2011 Run Time Engine on the Windows XP system (and I don't know if this is possible).
After next April, Windows XP "turns into a pumpkin" as Microsoft drops support for it.  A good time to migrate to Windows 7!
You can install LabVIEW 8.2 on a Windows 7 computer.  I have that right now specifically for converting old code.  And I am sure LabVIEW 2011 can go on XP as well.
I'm guessing the main issue is the lack of the 2011 Run-Time Engine on the XP machine.  But I would also advise moving away from the OpenFile+.vi since that is a really old VI and the newer LabVIEW file I/O primitives are so much better anyways.
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