can't open chm files all of a sudden

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Wed Oct 4 20:18:14 EDT 2006


John Salerno wrote:
> Keith Perkins wrote:
>
> > I used HTMLKit when I still used Windows, and liked it a lot.  It's really
> > a great HTML/PHP, etc. editor, if you can get past the front page.
> > That being said (if I remember correctly) hh.exe is a part of htmlkit, and
> > may have been the the cause of your problem by making itself the default
> > chm reader. (Check your settings under files to see what you have as the
> > default reader now. (and sorry, forgot how to do that, it's been almost
> > two years since I've had to fiddle with Windows, so I'm not sure of the
> > exact place to check for it.))
> > Keith
>
> Thanks for the response. I checked and hh.exe is the default, but should
> it not be? It seems like the official program to open CHM files.

hh.exe is the standard Windows CHM opener. Suspicion should be directed
at DLLs being replaced by HTMLKit.

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