National Instruments M Series User Manual page 9

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You must have NI-DAQmx 8.6 or later installed on your PC.

Note

New security updates to Microsoft Vista and NI-DAQ 8.6 create random INF files

for NI hardware. Windows assigns random file numbers to all INF files, which causes the

user to search through several INF files until the correct file is located.

Figure 9. USB-6211 OEM Device in the Found New Hardware Wizard

and Device Manager (Windows Vista/XP)

To modify the device name in the Found New Hardware Wizard and

Windows Device Manager in Microsoft Windows Vista/XP, complete the

following steps.

Locate the

OEM x .inf

is the random number assigned to the INF file by Windows, and

is the root directory where Windows is installed.

y :\

If you want to revert back, save a copy of this file as

OEM x _original.inf

file in the

y :\WINDOWS\inf\

in a different location.

directory, where

NI USB-621x OEM User Guide

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