Vista won't run .HLP format help files

[James Bott]

I came across this today. If your app has .HLP format help files they will not run under Vista--unless your users download this program. Due to Microsoft's copyright I don't think you can distribute this exe with with your app so each user would have to download and install the help exe. Now would be a good time to convert HLP files to CHM.

James

WinHlp32.exe is required to display 32-bit Help files that have the ".hlp" file name extension. To view .hlp files on Windows Vista, you need to install this application.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en

[Antonio Linares]

James,

Users may also copy it from XP windows directory

I guess many Vista users are running dual boot with XP

[James Bott]

Antonio,

>Users may also copy it from XP windows directory

Thanks for pointing that out. I was wondering if that would work.

James

[Richard Chidiak]

James Antonio

Vista is very versatile xith system files (ini files, cfg files)

It is changing and making things much more complex than before in behaviour.

Changing just a theme in windows (from aero to standard or whatever) makes ini files unaccessible to the same users.....

I am working on this at the moment, i have a brand new laptop (Vista). Our software uses a protection with Ini files in windows directory. We start facing the problems and plan to move to other extension than "ini"

I will keep posting on this. I think we should look much closer on Vista...

Richard

[James Bott]

Richard,

>I am working on this at the moment, i have a brand new laptop (Vista). Our software uses a protection with Ini files in windows directory. We start facing the problems and plan to move to other extension than "ini"

There is a discussion of some of the problems with INI files under Vista here:

http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/jerry ... 19/86.aspx

I hope it helps.

James