I'm guessing you forgot what password you set when you turned it on. There is no way to just turn the password protection off without knowing the password to first unlock it. If you could do that, it would defeat the purpose of protecting it in the first place.
The VI password protection seems to be pretty secure, and even NI says they can't break it. Maybe they are just not willing due to legal issues, but that's understandable. They wouldn't want to help somebody break into somebody else's VI unknowingly. That being said, Brian Renken created a tool that will attempt to find the password for a locked VI. It uses VI server and brute force to cycle through characters combinations. If you at least remember how many characters and if they were all letters, you might have a reasonable shot at getting it. If you don't remember anything about it, you're probably just as well of time wise to rebuild it from scratch. There's just too many possible combinations to make this quick. If you want to give a try, you can download the tool from his website. http://labview.brianrenken.com/downloads.shtm The main lesson here, don't forget your passwords or keep a listing of them, or keep an unprotected copy of the VI somewhere. Ed -------------------------------------------------------- Edwin O. Dickens - Certified LabVIEW Developer DISTek Integration, Inc. - NI Alliance Member Cedar Falls, Ia. DISTek Phone: (319) 266-7333 x115 DISTek Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hamid Shojai Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SPAM - Password Hello, I set a password for my VI. Now I want to see it's block diagram but I can't. How can I cancle it's protection? Please help me. Regards, Hamid Shojaei, University of Tehran, http://cad.ece.ut.ac.ir/~shojai http://www.geocities.com/hamidshojai --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger
