1) Download Owen Gunters Windows help file ( www.netyaroze-europe.com/~enigma/ftp/help.zip )

2) Unzip it to a directory of your choice, but remember where!!

We are now going to edit the registry, to tell Visual C++ where the help file is and turn it on.

3) Open up regedit, and got to the extension key under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/DevStudio/5.0/Help or,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/DevStudio/6.0/Help/Extension

4) There are three value you have to edit here

1. Enable, default 0, change this to 1 so the 'Use extension help' command is on the help menu,

2. Filename, change this to the location of where u unzip the help file, make sure u include the help file name,

3. State, default 0, u don't hae to change this here, but u may as well as u r here, so change it to 1, which means the extension help is turned on.

5) Ok thats the main bit done now, all u have to do now is start, or if u have it running restart, Visual C++ studio.

How to use the new help

This is just incase u don't know how u use the help,

1) Find the function/struct or what ever you want help on,

2) Click somewhere inside the word,

3) Press F1, and as long as u have the help turned on, a help window will open with the information in.

 

Ok well thats it, just a quick thank you to Graeme Evans . Hopes this helps anyone out there with visual c++.