Hi Faure,

See my other message - have figured it out. I needed to run VFP "as administrator" on the new machine. After that the help file became active and all I had to do was "unblock" the new .chm file. Thanks a lot for your help.

Albert

>Hi Albert,
>
>> If I navigate to the help file and open it with IE8, it opens properly (on my Win7 machine).
>ok ! yes it's not a problem with the Help file...
>
>>But I cannot get "Help" (of any sort) to fire up on that machine (a new install). When I click "Help" from the VFP menu, nothing happens. I tried reinstalling VFP from scratch and that did not help even with the old original help file.
>
>SET HELP ON
>;)
>? SYS("HELP",1)
>
>SET HELP TO ...
>
>>I found out that my CD from years ago is damaged so I re-created one from the CD plus from files on my current PC. I am going to start a new thread asking if anyone knows how to get a new CD.
>
>If you have msdn subscription you can download VFP
>
>regards
>Francis