Personalizing a fresh install of LabVIEW and/or aligning your settings with those of your team mates goes a long way towards easier collaboration.

Where Does LabVIEW Store Configuration Settings?
LabVIEW Wiki: LabVIEW Configuration File

QuickBold=True
bookmarkmanager.showvilib=True
bookmarkmanager.showresource=True
defaultErrorHandlingForNewVIs=False
sourceOnlyDefaultForNewVIs=True
QuickDropFastSearch=True
FancyFPTerms=False
reqdTermsByDefault=True
returnKeyAction=True
enableAutoWire=False
autoRouteWires=False
StructuresAutoSizeByDefault=False
DropSubdiagramLabelByDefault=True
DefaultLabelPositionIndBD=4
DefaultLabelPositionBD=12
defaultControlStyle=2
useNumbersForNewVIIcons=False
autoInsertFeedbackNode=False
autoLayoutBlockPaddingX=25
autoLayoutBlockPaddingY=30
autoLayoutWirePaddingX=10
autoLayoutWirePaddingY=10
autoLayoutFixControls=True
autoLayoutFixIndicators=True
skipNavigatorDialog=False
server.tcp.access="+127.0.0.1;+localhost;+*
showBDConstName=True

Additional settings for LabVIEW 2019 SP1 and later:

allowItemsViewDelete=True

Others:

DragAdjustWires=False // fixes a bug in LV2021 with auto-routing of wires
LVdebugKeys=True // enables the internal settings editor

More to be found at The LabVIEW Lab.

• Bookmark Project Provider
• Caraya unit Test Framwork
• Cyclic Table Probes
• Delacor QMH
• Hidden GEms in vi.lib
• HSE Layout Manager
• HSE Logger
• HSE WoW: Glyphs and Icon Templates
• HSE WoW: LabVIEW Settings
• HSE WoW: QuickDrop Plugins
• HSE WoW: Timing Probe
• HSE WoW: VI Analyzer TEsts
• HSE WoW: VI Templates
• JDP Science Common Utilities
• JKI State Machine
• Right Click Plugin Bugfix
• NI Bookmark Manager
• Some openG Libraries
• ZAlign
• VI Properties Editor
• Parse JSON to Cluster
• ZE DQMH Provider for the Project

• HSE Flavour DQMH Modules

• Little Helper

Getting started with custom quickdrop shortcuts

CTRL-Key Shortcuts

• Insert From Clipboard -> CTRL + I
• Replace From Clipboard -> CTRL + P
• Align FP Controls to Connector Pattern -> CTRL + A
• Align selected Elements -> CTRL + S
• Create "Place VI Contents" VI -> CTRL + SHIFT + G
• Nattify VI HSE flavour -> CTRL + H
• Show VI in Folder -> CTRL + F
• HSE Error Code Manager → CTRL + X

Block Diagram (inserts)

• HSE Logger INFO: hi
• HSE Logger DEBUG: hd
• HSE Logger WARNING: hw
• HSE Logger ERROR: he
• HSE Caraya Unit Test Template: ht

LabVIEW Shortcut Menu Plug-Ins Forum

• Darren Nattinger's Favorite Shortcut Plugins

Do we neew to include them in lv.ini?

Creating Custom Probes
LavaG Custom Probes Repository

• Timing Probe: https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Darren-s-Occasional-Nugget-02-23-2018/m-p/3759109
• Further useful probes are included in the VI-Packes JSONText and SQLite from J. Powell.

see our page about Fork Setup

We've created a .vipc (a VI Package Configuration file) that automates all of the above for ourselves and for our customers: