General Interest:

Legacy programs that otherwise work with Vista may contain Help files in the old .hlp format. Vista no longer supports that format, and apparently you must download the appropriate executable to restore them to their former "usefulness."

The Windows Help (WinHlp32.exe) program is no longer included with Windows operating systems starting with Windows Vista states that the WinHlp32.exe program previously used for reading Help files in .hlp is not included in Vista. It then says it is included. It then says it won't work. It then says you can fix it so it does work. It then says you shouldn't fix it.

… I think…?????

(Obviously this KB article was outsourced to India like most other support functions.)

It's only important if you need it.

I "ASSUME" that Help files are included in Vista, but that they are in .htm, .xml, or jscript files that don't require the WinHlp32.exe.

… … I'm not making any bets either way.

If you have an older program that runs, but won't open its Help files, you can take a look and see if you can figure out what this article says about it.

John