Labview trying to find runtime engine when opening up VB6

Question

This is bizarre. I'm not even trying to open a labview program, and I get this error.
when I go to open up VB6 from Visual Studio (Visual Studio 6, Enterprise Edition), I get a pop-up saying that the Labview runtime engine 7.1.1 is going to be configured. A new window then pops up, because it can't find the lvruntimeeng.msi file.
Problem is, I'm using Labview 8.2.
Worse, now my VB6 programs are hanging if I close out of all the installer boxes (it does this multiple times).
UPDATE-4:42PM EST-
I noticed when I went into Add/Remove Programs in the control panel, when I clicked on Change for National Instruments, it says that only the 7.1.1 Runtime Engine is installed. However, I can not uninstall it because another product relied on it. I also downloaded the 7.1.1 runtime engine, but it doesn't install because it says a higher version is already installed. (?)Message Edited by Dauntless on 12-26-2006 03:46 PM

Answer 1

There are some NI programs which were written in LabVIEW and so need the LV RTE in order to run.
Theoretically, the RTE should be properly installed when these programs are installed, but for some reason maybe it wasn't. Maybe one of the NI services running on your machine tries to do something when you're opening VB or maybe your code calls some NI component?
I used to have something similar where for some reason going into certain websites prompted me to insert the LV 7.1 CD so that I can configure the RTE. I think it stopped after doing it one time.
You can try downloading the 7.1 RTE and installing it to see if it will stop. If not, you can try pointing the dialog at the MSI once to see if that will stop it.
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