September 20, 2004

VC5 / XP-SP2 and help...

You are still using VC5? And you are working under XP? And you want to install SP2?
Ok, do it! But then your help-system of VC5 will not work anymore…

This is due to a new restriction in IE-Security. But you can force an exception of this new rule for the msdev-process via registry:

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
  Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_DISABLE_MK_PROTOCOL]
  “MSDEV.EXE”=dword:00000000

Posted 3 years, 4 months ago on September 20, 2004
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Re: VC5 / XP-SP2 and help...
Excellent! We (two developers) could not get the help working and Microsoft doesn't officially support Visual C++ 5.0 anymore, so we got no hints from them. With this solution we're happy again!
Posted 3 years, 2 months ago by Mark Smit • • • Reply
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Very many thanks for the fix - I too am using VC5 under XP. After backing up, reformatting my hard drive, reinstalling XP, SP2 and VC5 I finally found your blog, so I added the registry entry and it worked fine for me too. Wish I'd found it earlier but the I has a bundle of other XP SP2 problems that also needed fixing - my PC now runs like a dream - but for how long?
Posted 3 years, 1 month ago by Keith • • • Reply
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What a nice site! Great work! Go on!
Posted 3 years, 1 month ago by Dr_Lizza • • • Reply
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Hi, I want to start my blog too, what do you sthink about this script?
Posted 3 years, 1 month ago by icchy15 • @wwwReply
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Thanks so much for the help! I was at wits end trying to get the help files to work. The registry entry worked like a charm.
Posted 3 years, 1 month ago by George • • • Reply
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Thank you very much. You solved my problem.
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Paul • • • Reply
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This worked for me also. I also added a value "IVT.EXE"=DWORD:0 for the standalone infoviewer. I am adding these keywords to help other find the problem faster, because it took me two days to find the solution here. Developer Studio 97, Infoviewer, help does not diaplay, help is not visible, MSDN, Windows XP
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Rich Miller • • • Reply
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This solution works fine for Infoviewer of Microsoft Developer Studio 97, Visual Studio 97 on XP sp2
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Ivan Garnizov • @ • • Reply
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was going crazy.
Posted 4 days, 11 hours ago by Steven A. Brunton • • • Reply
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Thanks a lot. This was really helpful.
Posted 3 days, 17 hours ago by Alex • • • Reply
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Thanks for the help.
Posted 3 days, 11 hours ago by Perry • • • Reply
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Thankyou so much - I wouldn't have found this by myself in a million years.
Posted 1 day ago by Fentonius • • • Reply
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Thank you very very much!!!
Posted 2 years, 11 months ago by Paul • • • Reply
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Being a hobbiest programmer and using Visual C++ 5.0, i was thinking that i may have to upgrade to a newer version (at great cost!) to get it to work, thanks to your solution Ive got infohelp back. :-)
Posted 2 years, 11 months ago by D.Aldridge • • • Reply
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Thanks very much for this fix , you made my day :-)
Posted 2 years, 11 months ago by Paul • • • Reply
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As echoed elsewhere: many thanks for this, it's been driving me nuts for a couple of weeks. Any chance of an explanation of what this key does?
Posted 2 years, 10 months ago by Mick heath • • • Reply
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Thanks-you! I upgraded to SP2 months ago, but when I found that InfoVeiwer didn't work, and I couldn't find anything about the problem online I had to reformat and install XP sp1. Now that I found this I can upgrade to SP2.
Posted 2 years, 9 months ago by Jonathan • • • Reply
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Wow !!! Thanks a lot ;-) you are such a genius !!!
Posted 2 years, 8 months ago by alfa • • • Reply
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Thanks a bunch!
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago by John Hogan • • • Reply
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Thanks, indeed! Now I have to find out, what IS the "MK Protocol" we just made an exception for? Thanks again!
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago by Tom Baker • • • Reply
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Thanks a lot, half my student's were having this problem and I was just about to tell them to give up and install the MSDN Library when I found your solution Antonio Gortan Cefetpr - Curitiba PR Brazil
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago by Anonymous • • • Reply
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Thank you very much for the very helpful advice (which worked!)
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago by Martin Skinner • • • Reply
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Super! How on earth did you find this?
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