Hewlett-Packard to Agilent Transition Notes

The IO Libraries product, beginning with revision J.01.00, has been re-branded from Hewlett-Packard to Agilent Technologies. A number of changes have been made to the IO hardware, software and documentation to reflect this change:

The name of the HP I/O Libraries Control has been changed to Agilent IO Libraries Control.
The name of the IO Libraries folder under Start | Programs has changed from 'HP I_O Libraries' to 'Agilent IO Libraries'.
The 'HP' prefix to the shortcut names in the 'Agilent IO Libraries' folder has been removed.
The icons used for various IO Libraries components no longer use an HP logo.
When using the 'Add / Remove Programs' applet in the control panel, 'HP I/O Libraries' has been replaced by 'Agilent IO Libraries'.
Documentation and packaging for our IO products are in the process of being updated from HP to Agilent. Until this process is complete, you may find references to HP rather than Agilent.
References to HP-IB have been changed to GPIB throughout the product. Note, however, that the default interface names assigned by IO Config to Agilent GPIB interfaces have not changed (e.g. hpib7). These defaults were not changed to preserve backwards compatibility with existing applications which might rely on those names.
VISA attribute notes:
- VI_ATTR_RSRC_MANF_ID has not changed, it still returns 0xfff. This VXI manufacturer ID is now owned by Agilent.
- VI_ATTR_RSRC_MANF_NAME now returns 'Agilent Technologies' rather than 'Hewlett-Packard'.
Windows registry notes:
- New installations of the Agilent IO Libraries will create and use the registry path:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Agilent\IO Libraries.
- Earlier versions of the HP I/O Libraries used the registry path:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Hewlett-Packard\SICL.
- To maintain backwards compatibility, if there is no existing Agilent\IO Libraries registry path and there is an existing Hewlett-Packard\SICL path, the Agilent IO Libraries will continue to use the Hewlett-Packard\SICL path.
- For new installations (where neither the Hewlett-Packard nor the Agilent path exist), you can force Agilent IO Libraries setup to create and use the Hewlett-Packard\SICL path by running the setup program with the parameter 'usehpreg'. (e.g. 'setup usehpreg'). Note: setup will not allow you to install using the Hewlett-Packard path if an Agilent path exists.
- If both an Agilent\IO Libraries and a Hewlett-Packard\SICL path exist, IO Libraries will use the Agilent path and ignore the Hewlett-Packard path. IO Libraries setup will not normally create a second registry path if one already exists, however, if you install an older version of the IO Libraries over a version which has created an Agilent path or another application has created the Hewlett-Packard path, it is then possible for both paths to exist.
- If you want to change the registry path used by the IO Libraries, you must first uninstall the currently installed IO Libraries to remove the old path and then re-install the IO libraries using the appropriate setup option to use the new path.
- You can determine which registry path the IO Libraries are using by clicking on the Agilent IO Control and selecting the 'View Documentation | Installation Information' menu.