[DUG] Moved to D2007 OK - Help system busted
John Bird
johnkbird at paradise.net.nz
Sat May 5 23:52:36 NZST 2007
I am still stuck.
The Fabled Help System is still behaving like the proverbial Norwegian Blue
Parrot.
===========More Norwegian Blue Information============
Mr. Praline: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO POLLY!!!!!
Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call!
(Takes parrot out of the cage and thumps its head on the counter.
Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)
Mr. Praline: Now that's what I call a dead parrot.
Owner: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!
Mr. Praline: STUNNED?!?
Owner: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! Norwegian Blues
stun easily, major.
===========More Technical Information============
Here is more information, maybe you could forward it onto some technical
troubleshooter at Codegear or tell me what to next :)
There are no notes in the Help folder.....
I did find these instructions at
http://groups.google.co.nz/group/borland.public.delphi.non-technical/browse_
thread/thread/4fdfef65df877117/b2b4bb6d0873ee52%23b2b4bb6d0873ee52
"you need to make sure that dexplore is not running, otherwise the
registration process will fail. Unfortunately, closing Delphi 2007
doesn't automatically close the help system, you actually may have
running multiple copies without knowing.
So, before doing the above, close Delphi, open the task manager and kill
all "dexplore.exe" processes.
After that issue the registration command as follows:
h2reg -u cmdfile="h2reg.ini"
h2reg -r cmdfile="h2reg.ini"
This should bring back your original Delphi Help. "
In my case this is folder:
D:\BigPrograms\CodeGear\RAD Studio\5.0\Help\Doc>
(All Codegear stuff installed there instead of C:\Program Files, all .NET
stuff installed in default locations).
(these instructions ran OK but didn't fix it)
It produces a rather long log file with lots of comments in like
"Registered OK"
This is what I have in my Help folders:
Directory of D:\BigPrograms\CodeGear\RAD Studio\5.0\Help\Doc
04/05/2007 04:21 p.m. <DIR> .
04/05/2007 04:21 p.m. <DIR> ..
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 147,116 bds5start.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 34,767,570 delphivclwin32.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 3,743,436 devcommon.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,499,608 devnet.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 0 devwin32.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 189,952 H2Reg.exe
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 20,823 h2reg.ini
04/05/2007 04:22 p.m. 147,174 H2Reg_Log.txt
03/05/2007 11:00 p.m. <DIR> Indy
03/05/2007 11:00 p.m. <DIR> Intraweb
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 0 Master.HxC
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 0 Master.HxT
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 0 Master_A.HxK
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 0 Master_F.HxK
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 0 Master_K.HxK
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 0 Master_NamedURL.HxK
03/05/2007 11:04 p.m. <DIR> PSDK
03/05/2007 11:04 p.m. <DIR> Rave
14 File(s) 41,515,679 bytes
6 Dir(s) 16,704,794,624 bytes free
The folder above this has no files in it - just the folder Doc.
I am suspicious about the .hx* files with zero size, especially the one
called Master.HxC
There are more help files in the PSDK folder:
Directory of D:\BigPrograms\CodeGear\RAD Studio\5.0\Help\Doc\psdk
03/05/2007 11:04 p.m. <DIR> .
03/05/2007 11:04 p.m. <DIR> ..
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 185,030 Accessibility.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 98,976 Acquistn.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,315,904 AD.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 124,272 ADAM.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 53,684 ADFS_Conc.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,692,510 adfs_mref.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,150,788 ado.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 702,666 adrms_sdk.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,467,944 adschema.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,377,370 ADSI.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 22,876 AppVerif.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,214,988 Automat.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 116,452 backup.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 108,184 bcd.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,971,050 Behavior.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 430,448 bits.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 155,108 bluetooth.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,887,542 Cdo.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 922,858 CdoSys.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 233,166 CODEC_API.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,888,474 Com.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 403,360 CoreAud.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,396,984 CosSDK.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 974,600 CSS.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 352,584 DataBind.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 948,818 Debug.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 321,040 devio.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 173,454 dhcp.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 5,015,052 DHTML.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 5,695,886 directshow.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 25,620 directx.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 150,330 directx9_c.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,245,036 DllProc.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 367,732 dns.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 73,440 ds2x.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 72,920 DSDE.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 68,478 DSGLOSSARY.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 206,152 DSML.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 56,998 DSPORTAL.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 127,302 eap.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 264,638 eaphost.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 729,114 ese.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 495,422 etw.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 136,282 eventlog.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 51,468 events.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 4,000,666 fax.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 616,812 FeedsAPI.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,132,760 FileIO.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 7,563,889 Filters.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 240,634 fundisc.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 525,750 FWP.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 277,612 Game_Explorer.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,467,892 Gdi.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 3,961,843 gdicpp.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 319,540 gpmc.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 201,146 HTA.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 719,206 htmlhelp.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 451,978 http.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 123,432 Ias.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,412,346 Icm.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 465,476 ics.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 9,395,186 IEEXT.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 540,188 IEGLOBAL.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 697,830 IESecurity.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 3,165,670 IISSdk.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 916,534 IIS_70_AdminSDK.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,282,672 iis_70_webextsdk.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 516,808 imapi.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,003,906 IndexSrv.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,480,469 Intl.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 189,508 Ipc.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 333,828 iphlp.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 94,010 IpubSDK.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 113,094 irda.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 113,536 ktm.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 375,626 LDAP.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 67,404 madcap.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 110,564 MagAPI.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 161,582 managedmmc.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,117,160 managedmmc_mref.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 3,978,932 MAPI.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,210,552 MedFound.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 280,428 memory.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 174,108 mib.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 518,832 Midl.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,134,668 Mmc.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,215,554 mmsdev.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 70,190 MonitorConfiguration.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 6,260,214 mpcsdk.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 503,830 Msaa.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 627,656 MsAgent.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 62,552 mschap.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,693,660 Mscs.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,386,522 Msi.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,775,050 Msmq.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,446 MSSDK.hxc
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 73,570 MSSDK.hxq
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 22,256 MSSDK.hxr
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 435 MSSDK.hxt
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 252 MSSDK_alinks.hxk
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 211 MSSDK_blinks.hxk
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 293 MSSDK_flinks.hxk
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 293 MSSDK_klinks.hxk
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 250 MSSDK_namedurl.hxk
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 737,164 MSVS.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,506,460 Multimed.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 277,902 nap.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 366,780 nativewifi.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 120,014 Ndf.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 885,860 NetMeet.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 541,720 NetMgmt.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 575,522 NetMon.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 102,744 netshell.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 99,428 nla.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,470,944 Odbc.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 3,156,318 OleDb.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 715,678 OpenGL.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 898,814 outlookexpress.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 455,824 P2PSDK.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 161,278 parcon.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 423,306 pchealth.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 389,046 Perfctrs.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 286,886 Pla.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 570,092 Policy.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 272,470 power.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 228,902 PowerShell_conc.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 105,138 PowerShell_GetStarted.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 475,034 PowerShell_Prog.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 493,116 printschema.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 386,774 Qos.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 147,356 Rdc.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 164,022 rdp.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 63,332 Recovery.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 269,474 remoteassist.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,188,820 Rpc.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 990,126 Rras.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 98,042 Rstmgr.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 714,020 rtcclnt.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,197,850 SAPI53.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 236,536 sbscs.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 225,528 ScrEdit.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,375,366 script56.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 261,356 SDKintro.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 182,600 sdo.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 518,232 SEARCH.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,320,640 secauthn.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,158,630 secauthz.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 73,934 secbp.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,101,214 seccertenroll.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 185,240 seccng.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 3,143,126 seccrypto.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 113,968 secgloss.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 278,860 secmgmt.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 168,012 secprov.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 66,352 secslapi.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 87,968 sens.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 336,354 SetupAPI.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 17,354,868 ShellCC.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 96,320 Shutdown.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 3,576,038 SideBar.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 139,284 smi.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 581,999 SmtpEvt.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 294,162 snmp.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 86,152 sr.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 523,892 stg.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 570,578 stgmgmt.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 81,932 StillImg.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 515,444 sysinfo.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 142,086 Sysmon.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,435,400 TAPI.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 908,070 TaskSchd.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 62,350 Tbs.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 746,122 TermServ.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 145,260 Tools.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 129,532 TopLevel.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 727,290 tsf.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 406,902 uddi_con.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,179,604 uddi_mref.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 379,506 UIAuto.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 300,052 upnp.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 466,538 UrlMon.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 736,356 vds.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 59,602 vista_help_sdk.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 920,934 VSS.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 299,978 wab.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 96,220 wds.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 442,374 wes.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 89,160 wfp.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 649,086 Wia.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 410,616 WIAAUT.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 164,684 wibe.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 434,362 wic.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 142,608 WinContacts.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 159,378 WindowsDACOverview.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 514,486 winhttp.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 472,700 wininet.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 639,248 winmessenger.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 276,890 winprog.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 117,966 winprog64.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 248,214 Winrm.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 93,740 Winsat.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,504 WinSDK.hxc
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 36,683,954 WinSDK.hxq
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 3,917,106 WinSDK.hxr
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 18,931 WinSDK.hxt
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 93,278 WinSDK_About.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 253 WinSDK_alinks.hxk
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 239 WinSDK_blinks.hxk
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 294 WinSDK_flinks.hxk
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 294 WinSDK_klinks.hxk
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 248 WinSDK_namedurl.hxk
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,542,894 WinSock.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 3,356,644 Winui.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 457,324 Wizard.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,631,462 wmform11.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 5,918,250 WMISDK.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,379,468 wmpsdk11.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 3,366,490 wmsrvsdk.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 277,742 WN.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 145,710 Wnet.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 514,214 WPD_SDK.HxS
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 304,228 wsdapi.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 1,527,904 WSSSDK.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 107,510 wsus_conc.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 2,003,200 wsus_mref.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 434,256 wua_sdk.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 367,422 XMLLite.hxs
10/03/2007 06:00 a.m. 3,296,474 xmlsdk.hxs
228 File(s) 252,156,759 bytes
2 Dir(s) 16,704,778,240 bytes free
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Vowles [mailto:richard at developers-inc.co.nz]
Sent: Saturday, 5 May 2007 5:48 p.m.
To: johnkbird at paradise.net.nz; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Moved to D2007 OK - Help system busted
John Bird wrote:
> Still no Help at all. Where can I go to resolve this, or anyone got
> any suggestions where to troubleshoot - eg what are the help files
> called and where are they located so I can check they are there, and
> where are the settings where the IDE goes to look for them??
>
Have you tried to rebuild the help? I found I had the same issue on
installation but rebuilding it (dos prompt, read the instructions in the
help directory) did the trick.
Richard
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