.HLP support discontinued in Vista

Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog, on 27 Jan 2007 | View original

While browsing around tonight I ran into this MSDN Knowledgebase Article:   Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) is no longer included with Windows (Vista)   Ok, so Windows Help is getting a bit old, but why remove this old program from the distribution and instantly break thousands of applications that still rely on help files? I just did a quick check on some of the applications I run here and there are a couple that have hlp files. An old version of WinZip and WinRar are a couple...

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