>Hi Hilmar,
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>Not all users are guru's like us! The majority of my clients are elderly, first time computer users. To them downloading is scary and an inconvenience and the link only indicates it will be available from early 2007. I couldn't see it there but maybe it is downloaded with the usual M$ fixes.
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>My biggest concern is why did M$ remove the winhelp from my computer when I am not even running Vista? I accept I will have to convert my hlp files eventually, but in the meantime...

I know. I don't like this at all. Although personally I use CHM for my own applications (much easier for the programmer), there are so many applicatoins out there that still use the old format.

Perhaps you remember the time (Windows 95 / 98), when you had to distribute CHM help support together with your applications. If you ever used this help format.

In the case of HLP, you might do something similar. Rather than have the user do a download, distribute the HLP support together with the application setup. Or some upgrade.

Of course, there are still problems when the user doesn't want or need any upgrade (except for the OS upgrade).