Still trying to get F1 to work.... -- dotnet setup

George Hardy
10/19/2005 2:05:01 PM

knowlegeable people:

i uninstalled msdn completely, and also deleted every registry value i could
find for msdn, and also deleted the directory in c:\program files\msdn.

this should give me a clean install, right? no. F1 help still does not
work. I found a knowlegebase article that says this is by design. well,
microsoft's installer for msdn 2003 sucks, because it doesn't fix the sh*t
properly. I have tried the collection manager, and "msdn library - January
2003" is CHECKED. I uncheck it, restart, then check it again, and still no
worky.

what is the magic word? please? i need help with this...thanks

george hardy

i love ms, but not msdn installer!!!!!!

George Hardy
11/2/2005 3:42:56 PM

Close VSNET

Start > Run and type regedit and then click Ok Navigate to the following
registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\Help\0x0409

Expand 0x0409

Highlight the GUID under 0x0409

Modify VS_Docs by double clicking VS_Docs and changing the value data to on
the right to "7.1" (without quotes)

Close the registry Open VSNET Attempt to access help

This works.

Hope this helps someone!

george hardy

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