help with help.....

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It seems that my help is disabled in programs...it used to work I thought. In
other words when I click help on tool bar in program, nothing happens. It
does seem to work in office programs with office assistant though.
 
The error message is "Help call failed" "Check help properties" Sorry for got
to add that :)
 
It seems that my help is disabled in programs...it used to work I thought. In
other words when I click help on tool bar in program, nothing happens. It
does seem to work in office programs with office assistant though.
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EasyCleaner's Windows XP bug fix file. Restores the needed entries accidentally deleted by
EasyCleaner. Works only with Windows installed in C:\Windows, otherwise edit the file (with
notepad) to correspond to your Windows location.

The Register Fix is available from Doug Knox.
Fix Windows XP Help
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/fixwinxphelp.htm
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/fix_windows_xp_help.htm

If all the above fails...
Comprehensive rebuild of Help Center: Posted by Rebecca Chen[MS]

Click Start, click Run and type CMD, and click OK.
In Command Prompt, type the following commands and press Enter after each
line: (Alternately, create a Batch file and run.)

net stop helpsvc
cd /d %windir%\pchealth\helpctr
rd packagestore /s /q
rd installedskus /s /q
cd binaries
start /w helpsvc /svchost netsvcs /regserver /install
start /w helpsvc /register

Note: The "start /w helpsvc /svchost netsvcs /regserver /install" command
line reinstalls Help and Support, which may take several minutes.
 
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