
So the first obvious workaround is to move the chm file!Īt first sight that may not be an option you want to consider so it Files on the users hard disk are not affectedīy this patch. It also affects Related Topics commands and other instances of the HTML Help ActiveX control. Most commonly clicking the TOC contents gets a Page Cannot Be Displayed Has been a flurry of postings about chm files that no longer work properly, Since the introduction of Security Update 896358 (Jun 2005) there (Don't fiddle about, or something like that.) About 896358 Remember, unless you have the knowledge, the golden rule

Knowledge is pretty much limited to making changes described by others so I The workarounds involve registry changes so great care is required. I am also grateful to Pete Lees for his counsel on the What I have done is pull that information together into one topic and explain This is more restrictive but limits the risks. Fabio Pagano then posted a solution allowing only files in a designatedįolder to run.Has then been covered in Pete's responses to various postings.

Some highly technical documents and making some sense of them. Pete, as always, has done an excellent job of trawling through The methods of allowing all chm files to run on an intranet were identifiedīy Pete Lees.The identification of the cause of these problems and the workarounds is not In short, CHMs can no longer be run from a network. I would expect that to also apply to the methods here. UPDATE I note that the Help and Manual site states that none of the solutions there allow CHMs to run from a network on 64 bit machines. Tim Green of Help and Manual explains how it works on their support forum.

Recently though I have learned of another solution that does not require any registry edits. UPDATE The information on this page remains correct. Surrounding the implemention of those solutions. Workarounds but, and of importance, it first covers the security considerations

Microsoft have posted various workarounds. Since the introduction of Microsoft Security Update 896358 in 2004, chmįiles located on a server will not work properly, most commonly clickingĪ topic in the TOC gets a Page Cannot Be Displayed message.
