hhctrl.ocx maybe goofed up

[Keith G Hicks]

I was working with an ocx file in Delphi and discovered that somehow it
fouled up my ability to open any chm files. I've spent the last couple of
hours scouring the web and newsgroups trying to figure out how to fix this.
I'm running Win2k SP4. I found some info that said to unregister and
reregister hhctrl.ocx. I did that (it unregistered and reregistered
succesfully) but I still can't run any chm files. Both copies of hhctrl.ocx
(in system32 and dllcache) are version "5.2.3790.309" from early this year.
I poped in my installation CD and searched for a copy of hhctrl.ocx but
couldn't find one on there. Obviously this is a major problem! Can anyone
help me out?

Thanks,

Keith

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Keith G Hicks" <[email protected]>

| I was working with an ocx file in Delphi and discovered that somehow it
| fouled up my ability to open any chm files. I've spent the last couple of
| hours scouring the web and newsgroups trying to figure out how to fix this.
| I'm running Win2k SP4. I found some info that said to unregister and
| reregister hhctrl.ocx. I did that (it unregistered and reregistered
| succesfully) but I still can't run any chm files. Both copies of hhctrl.ocx
| (in system32 and dllcache) are version "5.2.3790.309" from early this year.
| I poped in my installation CD and searched for a copy of hhctrl.ocx but
| couldn't find one on there. Obviously this is a major problem! Can anyone
| help me out?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Keith
|


I looked in my slipstreamed i386 folder and found v5.2.3790.233 dated 11/21/2004, 501KB

Interestingly, I have...
C:\WINNT\system32\hhctrl.ocx v5.2.3790.309
and
C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386\hhctrl.ocx v5.2.3735.1

All works OK on my Win2K SP4, RollUp 1, PC

 

[Keith G Hicks]

I guess this info could help someone else sometime. I ended up finding the
following site: http://helpware.net/downloads/index.htm#MJs
I ran the tool and as it turns out 2 dll's were somehow not registered. Not
sure what happened to cuase that. I'd been running some chm help just a
cuople of hours earlier jsut fine. The tool registered the dll's and all is
fine now.

-keith