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Re: Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 8

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows, sci.electronics.design, comp.arch.embedded
Subject Re: Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 8
Date 2015-06-09 04:40 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <ml68nc$ji0$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 6/8/2015 9:05 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:
> rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Hmm, I googled your subject and it produced
>>> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35449 which
>>> seems to offer both a 32-bit and a 64-bit download of the program
>>> WinHlp32.exe. So I guess one of those should work?
>>
>> But you didn't follow the link to see if a 64 bit version was
>> available. It is not.  This is the same page I found and at the top it
>> says,
>
> I actually did and got a page with checkboxes so one can download 32bit
> or 64bit or both versions but didn't try to download. Now that I tried
> at first nothing downloaded but I guess that's Microsoft hating on
> Chrome. Retried with IE and both Windows8-RT-KB917607-x64.msu and
> Windows8-RT-KB917607-x86.msu both downloaded.

I can see the check boxes in FF, but nothing downloads.  Obviously MS is 
still fighting a battle from the 90's.

-- 

Rick

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Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 8 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 17:04 -0400
  Re: Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 8 upsidedown@downunder.com - 2015-06-05 10:30 +0300
  Re: Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 8 Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2015-06-05 11:35 +0000
  Re: Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 8 Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2015-06-06 14:43 +0300
    Re: Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 8 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-06-06 12:14 -0400
      Re: Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 8 Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2015-06-08 16:05 +0300
        Re: Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 8 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-06-09 04:40 -0400
        Re: Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 8 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-06-09 04:40 -0400

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