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VC++ 5.0 online help problems

I use MSVC++ 5.0 on Windows 95, and subscribe to MSDN (Professional). The online help system cannot seem to find any citings that are supposed to be on the Visual C++ CD--I get an "Insert Disk" message box telling me to insert the Visual C++ CD (or change the path), even though the disk is in the drive and the path seems correct. What gives? The Microsoft KB doesn't acknowledge this as a problem.

Tommy Hui

Did you install MSDN last? If not, you'll need to install MSDN last (i.e. after you install any of the Visual Studio components).

danbind

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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this, and it didn't fix the behavior. I first uninstalled MSDN, and then MSVC (or DevStudio) had a REAL problem deciding where to look--it seemed more confused than ever. I then uninstalled MSVC, and reinstalled MSVC ("typical" installation). I now should have only known about MSVC. All the help reference citings now referred to the Visual C++ CD, but in the "Insert Disk" dialog it gave as the path "C:\Program Files\Devstudio\Msdn". I changed it to various combinations of "D:\", "D:\Devstudio\Msdn", etc., but it doesn't seem to even ATTEMPT to look on the CD.

I then reinstalled MSDN to get things back to the way they were.

One hypothesis may be that, for whatever reason, MSDN and/or MSVC have corrupted their own registry entries beyond repair, and my only recourse is to start over from the ground up and do a fresh install of Windows 95. However, I don't see that happening!

Tommy Hui

If you want to reinstall VC++ and MSDN from scratch, try deleting the registry settings under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DevStudio before you install them again.

danbind

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Thanks for the suggestion. I uninstalled both apps, then checked the registry for the keys in question. There weren't any DevStudio references after the uninstall in HCU. In HKLM, though, there were a bunch under "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InfoViewer\5.0\Locations" and "..\Titles". I might try backing up my registry and erasing these.

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danbind

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Yes, it now seems to work properly--thanks! :)