Comments on Komeil Bahmanpour: Windows Help Program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 7 ...

Works great thanks. Clever script too. No way am ...

2012-02-03T01:55:04.727-08:00

Works great thanks. Clever script too.

No way am I going to run Microsofts authentication program after it crashed on me last time forcing a complete system re-build. Can't believe they will not support it. Lots of very expensive software out there running older help files.

Thank you very much. Have a licensed x83 win7 and...

2012-01-05T03:31:59.929-08:00

Thank you very much.
Have a licensed x83 win7 and the installer downloaded from ms support did not work.
This one works fine.
You make my day.
Respect...

The course of events suggests your user is not the...

2012-01-01T10:34:15.965-08:00

The course of events suggests your user is not the Administrator himself. Remember, an administrative account with a different name than the Administrator belonging to the Administrators Local User Group is not as highly-privileged as the Administrator himself. Try RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.

I tried the download in Windows 7 Home on an x86 l...

2012-01-01T09:53:33.501-08:00

I tried the download
in Windows 7 Home on an x86 laptop,
while logged on as administrator,
and it failed as follows...

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Windows Help program (WinHlp32) installer for Windows 7 │
│ Revision 2 │
│ June 14, 2009 │
│ Copyright (c) 2009 Chortkeh. All rights reserved. │
│ Command-line scripting by Komeil Bahmanpour. │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Setup is detecting Windows version...
Microsoft Windows 7 [Version 6.1] detected.

Terminating all possible running instances of WinHlp32...
ERROR: The process "winhlp32.exe" not found.

Taking the ownership of system's existing winhlp32.exe.mui...
ERROR: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder) "C:\Windows\en-US\winhlp32.exe.mui".

Granting mandy full-access permission to system's existing winhlp32.exe.mui...
C:\Windows\en-US\winhlp32.exe.mui: Access is denied.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files

Copying winhlp32.exe.mui to system...
Access denied

Error installing WinHlp32

Setup will now exit.

Press any key to continue . . .

.....ANY SUGGESTIONS?

Thank you very much. Have a licensed x64 win7 and...

2011-12-27T04:39:35.364-08:00

Thank you very much.
Have a licensed x64 win7 and the installer downloaded from ms support did not work.
This one works fine.

Posted December 11, 2011 @ 12:40 PM Download serv...

2011-12-13T04:21:35.794-08:00

Posted December 11, 2011 @ 12:40 PM

Download server is back after a virtual directory problem made it unresponsive.

Download Link is down.

2011-12-08T12:21:06.588-08:00

Download Link is down.

Thanks for the help. Worked great after I read the...

2011-11-16T18:01:49.728-08:00

Thanks for the help.
Worked great after I read the directions a few times.
I always rush in and miss something.

Thanks again

Joe

sooooo... I spoke too soon and the registry hack s...

2011-11-07T20:25:10.899-08:00

sooooo... I spoke too soon and the registry hack still didn't help even after reboot. Here is an awesome last ditch effort that does actually let you get some kind of useful info from your help file, the Help File Decompiler:
http://www.helpscribble.com/decompiler.html

-beerman

Nevermind... found the answer to the... "Cann...

2011-11-07T19:54:03.680-08:00

Nevermind... found the answer to the...
"Cannot display this help file. Try opening the help file again, and if you still get this message, copy the help file to a different drive, and try again."
...issue here if anyone else needs it (you have to 'click here' to show the relevant info):

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607#3

Cheers Komeil!

-beerman

On my Windows 7 x64, installation seems to work fi...

2011-11-07T19:43:29.703-08:00

On my Windows 7 x64, installation seems to work fine judging by the Cmd Prompt (all 'successful' statuses and no errors) but trying to open a help file yields a simple OK Dialog box: "Cannot display this help file. Try opening the help file again, and if you still get this message, copy the help file to a different drive, and try again." I've tried opening the file from every partition on my hard drive... any ideas?

-beerman

Dear Komeil, Thanks a lot for your free package, ...

2011-08-15T19:40:37.729-07:00

Dear Komeil,

Thanks a lot for your free package, it is very useful.

Chakeeretim

Gracias amigo, muchas gracias por el aporte

2011-08-05T07:26:42.845-07:00

Gracias amigo, muchas gracias por el aporte

Access is denied to exe.mui after runnimg install....

2011-08-01T18:23:43.900-07:00

Access is denied to exe.mui after runnimg install.cmd and I am operating as administrator. Can you suggest a course of action, please? All the permissions in the Properties, Security tab seem OK
Tony

Obrigado... instalou legal... JOEL

2011-07-07T14:51:13.346-07:00

Obrigado... instalou legal... JOEL

Installation failed due to an Access Denied error....

2011-04-01T09:11:35.961-07:00

Installation failed due to an Access Denied error.

It looks like the batch file took ownership correctly but when it tried to copy the new .mui file Access denied.

I tried Run AS.. and I am the administrator.

Does this require local admin rights?

Thnaks !! worked like charm :) Although I had to r...

2011-03-14T21:54:23.649-07:00

Thnaks !! worked like charm :) Although I had to run it as administrator.

I just want to add that the problem is that the sy...

2011-02-12T09:16:13.631-08:00

I just want to add that the problem is that the system can not find the specified path. After the script aked if the path leads to a file name or a folder name I chose "V" for "Verzeichnis" (folder in German. Than it says "Error installing WinHlp32" and aborts installation.

Unfortunatelly I couldn't install it. It looks...

2011-02-12T09:08:37.714-08:00

Unfortunatelly I couldn't install it. It looks like it can not find my Windows 7 folder so installation is aborted. Could it be a problem that I'm using Windows 7 in German?

Thanks for helping me. Now I can read the Delphi h...

2010-12-02T20:52:15.555-08:00

Thanks for helping me. Now I can read the Delphi help files.

Ben from Montreal

This package was helpful in my situation: MS has n...

2010-09-10T14:46:10.330-07:00

This package was helpful in my situation: MS has no winhlp32 available for ukrainian [uk-UA] locale of Windows 7, so i had to find something else.

Dude, awesome package! soloved the problem rightaw...

2010-08-15T10:02:17.000-07:00

Dude, awesome package! soloved the problem rightaway. Thanx!!
Greetings from Argentina!

I'm not a seer and "some ownership issue&...

2010-08-04T03:42:59.306-07:00

I'm not a seer and "some ownership issue" is unclear, at least post the error message. Make sure you are the Administrator, otherwise, run the installer as administrator.

i am having problem with u r download. some owners...

2010-08-03T03:17:11.590-07:00

i am having problem with u r download. some ownership issue. please guide

I have included it as comment in your site (commen...

2010-07-25T08:39:37.003-07:00

I have included it as comment in your site (commented with signature "- Sam" on April 26, 2010)

You may include that info as a note near the download link. I was not able to view the hlp files for months and only after I tried deleting the old .GID files (created under Windows XP), I could view the hlp files.

If I had not tried deleting the old .GID files, I would have come to the conclusion that your winhlp32 wouldn't work (or doesn't work for me).

Thanks,
Sampath