Labview

I am currently working on a research project involving tactile sensing. My primary programming language is going to be National Instruments Labview and Matlab. I chose Labview because I have used it in the past and I also like their DAQs. I have a NI USB-6221 that we got funded through our student government. It looks very promising, but there is one major obstacle I have to get past: installing Labview.

I have installed Labview on my laptop in the past as well as our lab's desktops. There were no major problems back then. Recently, I decided to upgrade my laptop's operating system to Mircrosoft's Window 7. When I tried to install my copy of Labview 8.6 it gave me an error stating that I had an incompatible operating system. I decided to work around this problem by having using Window 7's "xp mode", a virtual system that runs Windows XP. Labview installed fine on that system, but the drivers for it could not properly operate the DAQ. I am very disappointed. I have yet to find a solution online and off for this problem. I may resort to installing Labview on my antiquated desktop.