Update required to use legacy help files on Windows 7 (KB917607)

KB917607 update required in order to use legacy help (.hlp) files.

WinHlp32.exe is required to display 32-bit Help files that have the ".hlp" file name extension. To view .hlp files on Windows 7, you need to install this application.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=258aa5ec-e3d9-4228-8844-008e02b32a2c&displaylang=en

Windows6.1-KB917607-x64.msu

702KB

Windows6.1-KB917607-x86.msu

688KB

Also see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262841

and

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934307

for installation command line parameters.

wusa.exe <filename>.msu /quiet /norestart

Registering comdlg32.ocx on Windows 7 64-bit

http://www.bioinformatics.org/snp-tools-excel/install_comdlg32.htm

In case this link stops working, you copy comdlg32.ocx to C:\windows\syswow64 and run regsvr32.exe in the normal way.  YOU MUST HOWEVER start the ActiveX Installer Service first.