[Dxbase] Winhelp32.exe for Vista now available

[crownhaven]

Well, I'm not sure about XP.  I have friends who run businesses who 
still operate Windows 2000 over XP.  One of them is an MIT graduate and 
he won't touch XP with his business.  I have XP PRO on a work computer 
and it is a pain in the ass.  Always something going on.  Windows 2K 
runs like a champ.  I think I'll stay off the wave until all these 
distress calls stop coming in on the reflector.

Steve, N4JQQ

Robert Bonner wrote:

>Steve,
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>Well if you are still on win 2000 you missed a fantastic product "XP" over
>the last 5 years that made 2000 look like a boat anchor.  Vista is doing
>just fine, they are based around ONLINE HELPS now and not help files.
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>That's old technology.
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>Catch the wave or float out to sea my friend.
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>BOB DD
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: crownhaven [mailto:crownhaven at bellsouth.net] 
>Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:00 PM
>To: rbonner at qro.com
>Cc: 'John Pelham'; 'DXBase List'
>Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Winhelp32.exe for Vista now available
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>Just curious.....why would anyone want to flog themselves with another 
>Microsoft product that we all know is shot full of holes and will take 
>years to stabilize????  Serious question.  I am still running Windows 
>2000 and it is rock solid.  I just don't understand what Vista does for 
>you unless your hobby is computing.
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>Steve, N4JQQ
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>Robert Bonner wrote:
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>>I loaded that help thing too and mine does exactly the same thing.  I'm on
>>Vista 64
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>>BOB DD
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net
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>[mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
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>>On Behalf Of John Pelham
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 4:30 PM
>>To: DXBase List
>>Subject: [Dxbase] Winhelp32.exe for Vista now available
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>>A few weeks ago us Vista "beta testers" were lamenting the fact that we
>>couldn't read the DXbase help topics using the Vista OS.  MS has released
>>Winhelp32.exe for Vista which will run .hlp files such as those used by
>>DXbase.
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>>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6ebcfad9-d3f5-4365
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>>8070-334cd175d4bb&displaylang=en
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>>or
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>>http://tinyurl.com/yvstvw
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>>Although, on my system, there's still a bit of a problem:  When I choose a
>>help topic I get an error message "there was a problem running the macro."
>>The help topic displays, but I can't get back to the list of topics; i.e.,
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>>can navigate within a topic using the << and >> buttons, but to view
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>>topic I have to start over from the DXbase app with Help | Help Topics and
>>choose another one.
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>>Better than nothing, though.
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>>73, W1JA
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