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You can create a stand-alone real-time application using the LabVIEW Application Builder and set the application to run when you power on an RT target. You can create multiple build specifications that configure the settings of stand-alone real-time applications under an RT target. However, you can set only one stand-alone real-time application as startup for an RT target. When you set a build specification as the startup application for an RT target, LabVIEW displays a green border around the icon for the build specification in the Project Explorer window.

To run a built stand-alone real-time application, right-click the build specification in the Project Explorer window and select Run as startup from the shortcut menu. The Run as startup shortcut menu item sets the application as the startup application, deploys the application to the target, and prompts you to reboot the RT target.

You also can complete the following steps to run a stand-alone real-time application as the startup application on an RT target.

1. Build the stand-alone real-time application.
2. Right-click the build-specification and select Set as startup from the shortcut menu to enable the application to run when you reboot or power on the RT target.
3. Right-click the build specification and select Deploy from the shortcut menu to deploy the application to the RT target.
4. Right-click the RT target and select Utilities»Reboot to reboot the RT target and run the stand-alone real-time application.

Note  You cannot run a stand-alone real-time application without setting the application as startup and rebooting the RT target.