Thursday, February 24, 2011

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