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Help files in Windows Vista
Friday, September 7, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Posted by John Baker (2 messages posted)

There is software that we put on a Windows Vista PC. That software has help files that our customer needs to access. We have installed the help program from Microsoft's web page but it still does not want to display the help file. So we tried to associate the file to the winhlp-xp.exe but it still does not display the help file. It says to copy it to another drive and try it again. The file is located on a server. Has anyone had this problem and found a fix?

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re: Help files in Windows Vista
Friday, September 7, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Posted by Shawn (610 messages posted)

Hi John,

I do not know if this will work for your problem, but it is worth a try.  It will 
not hurt anything because it is just setting it back to a default setting.


http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/87497-help-support-vista.html

Shawn

There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.

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re: Help files in Windows Vista
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 5:56 am
Posted by Greg (1 messages posted)

This is a much easier way and it works in both OS (Vista & XP):

http://www.xpize.net/downloads/takecontrol/TakeControlb2.zip

1. Save to desktop

2. Create folder in C:\Program files called 'Take Control'

3. Cut and paste the TakeControlb2.zip
file to the folder you created.

4. Unpack and create a shortcut of the .exe file on you desktop (or wherever).

5. Run the program.

6. Take control of the 'winhlp32.exe' in the Windows directory and delete it (should 
be about 9kb). If it is not there do nothing.

7. Copy the winhlp32.exe file (227kb) from an XP system and copy it into the Vista 
'Windows' directory.

8. Close and resume as per normal.

This solves the registry edit problems that do not always work in every version.

Cheers and good luck.






On Friday, September 7, 2007 at 3:24 pm, Shawn wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>I do not know if this will work for your problem, but it is worth a try. It will
>not hurt anything because it is just setting it back to a default setting.
>
>
>http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/87497-help-support-vista.html
>
>Shawn
>

There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.

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