{"id":128,"date":"2006-02-15T23:26:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T23:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2006\/02\/15\/help_the_help\/"},"modified":"2006-02-15T23:26:41","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T23:26:41","slug":"help_the_help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2006\/02\/15\/help_the_help\/","title":{"rendered":"Help the help"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how this happened.<\/p>\n

One day, my help files refused to launch. Anytime I clicked on a CHM, nothing happened. I don’t know at what point it stopped working, and I don’t know what I installed to make it stop working.<\/p>\n

Thing is, the components to launch a CHM file are part and parcel of the Windows operating system — there isn’t really an easy way to reinstall that particular portion of the OS without reinstalling the entire OS.<\/p>\n

And my Googlefu was failing me — I don’t remember the search term I used to find a forum post that actually had a workable suggestion.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

But I’m writing this post for posterity.<\/p>\n

If your Windows help files don’t launch, download the MJS Diagnostic tool<\/a>. The "Help Run-Time Components" section will tell you which files need to be installed and whether they are.<\/p>\n

In my case, they were missing. I did hard drive search to see if maybe they were moved somewhere else. I found additional copies of those files in the C:\\i386 folder, so I copied them to %WINNT%\/system32.<\/p>\n

After I did that, my help files could launch once again.<\/p>\n

I’m glad I ran across this diagnostic tool, because I would have really tossed the curse words if I had to reinstall Windows just to fix my CHMs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If your Windows help files don’t launch, download the MJS Diagnostic tool. The “Help Run-Time Components” section will tell you which files need to be installed and whether they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technophilia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-24","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}