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titleNoticeNOTICE: Free LabVIEW During the COVID 19 Pandemic

We are pleased to inform that National Instruments is now offering free access to LabVIEW to all APU students and academic staff due to the COVID-19 pandemic for at least 70 days.

LabVIEW is a graphical program commonly used by scientists and engineers for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation. Please follow the guide below on installing it.

Should you have any inquiries or you need technical and application support during the Restricted Movement, please do not hesitate to contact our Virtual Help Centre at 03-8992 5050 during operation hours (Weekdays: 8:00 am – 9:30 pm) or you may log a helpdesk request by sending an email to assist@apu.edu.my.

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After you activate your account/log in to your user account, you will see this website.

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You will be given the Serial Number. This Serial Number will be valid for 70 days. You can always come back to this website to view the Serial Number if you need to reactivate in the future.

Under Additional Resources, click on Download Software’Software.

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You will see this download page to download LabVIEW. In Application Application Bitness, select 64-bit.

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Leave other settings to default.

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If you are using different Operating System, such as

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macOS, you need to change Supported OS to the correct settings.

Once you choose the settings you need, click on Download’ Download.

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When prompted, login to your account again.

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Once everything is done, you will see this page and the download will start. If the download doesn’t start, click Restart the click Restart the download link.

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Installation

Once the download completed, open the downloaded file and the installation process will start.

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Install NI Package Manager

Before the LabVIEW install, you will need to install Package Manager.

Select I accept the above license agreement” t and click Next.

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When prompted about disabling Windows Fast Startup, click Next.

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On this page, click Next. The installation will proceed and it will take a minute.

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Install LabVIEW and drivers

Once the Package Manager had been installed, the LabVIEW installer will show up.

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On this page, you will be given the option to select additional items to install. Leave it to default and click Next.

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Select I accept the above license agreement(s)and click Next.

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Select I accept the above license agreement(s)and click Next.

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When prompted about disabling Windows Fast Startup, click Next.

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Next, you will see a dialog box to opt-in to their Customer Experience Improvement Program. Select No, I do not want to participate in the NI Customer Experience Improvement Programand click OK.

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Activate LabVIEW 2019

After the installation is completed, you will be requested to activate LabVIEW. Click on Log in to Activate.

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Once you successfully logged in, you will see a list of software that needs licenses.

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Don’t click on Activate or Extend Trial yet.

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Since we are given a Serial Number to activate, click on the dropdown drop-down box and select Enter a serial number. In all the textboxestext-boxes, fill in the Serial Number.

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Refer to Section 2

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for the serial number

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Once you fill in the Serial Number in all the text boxes, click Activate. It will start activating the software by checking the serial number.

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Click on Reboot Now to complete the installation.

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Installation Complete

To launch LabVIEW, in the Start Menu type in NI LabVIEW 2019and press enter.

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If you see this when you open LabVIEW, it means your LabVIEW is activated properly.

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