"Pete M." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FE06DE49-CF86-4347-9AB2-0920B289134E@microsoft.com...
> My group recently upgraded from vc6 to VS Enterprise Arch 2003. We have
> installed the version of MSDN that came with it and we all still get
errors
> saying that help is not installed.

>Hi. I got this from Peter van der Goes.
>
> I do not guarantee it, but it worked for me.
>
> First, be sure to back up your registry.
>
> Though I didn't use it as I already knew how, Peter recommended the
> following url for instructions on backing up, editing, and restoring the
> registry:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;256986
>
> With that said, here's the correction to attempt:
>
> Run regedit.exe or your favorite registry editor and find the following:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
> SOFTWARE
> Microsoft
> VisualStudio
> 7.1
> Help
> 0x0409
> {32AF11EA-A804-47bd-BDAE-31653BD0CDD9}
>
> Note that if you are using a language other than English-US, the hexadecimal
> value after "Help" will be different than shown above.
>
> Select the long value enclosed in the curly braces and on the right side
> look at the value named "VS_Docs".
>
> The data associated with that value should be "7.1". If it says "Not
> supported", change that to "7.1".
>
> Close the registry editor and restart Visual Studio.
>
> Do NOT change the "VS_Docs" data value for any other elements that you find
> in that part of the registry."
>
> Like I said, it worked for me. Hope it does for you.
>
> / R