can't open chm files all of a sudden

[John Salerno]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:36:10 -0400, John Salerno
> <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> 
>> John Machin wrote:
>>
>>> 4. Have you done a full virus and spy-ware scan? Do you regularly
>>> install Windows updates from Microsoft?
>> Well, this is certainly the last thing I expected to work, but it did! 
>> There was something called an IECache cookie (which I've actually had 
>> before) and after removing it my chm files open now! Thanks for 
>> suggesting this! I was desperate! :)
> 
> 	Probably some stray left behind by HTML KIt <G>... Remember, the
> rendering engine is NOT Internet Explorer only, it is shared by the
> desktop file Explorer, the help viewer, etc....

LOL. I was also asking for help in the HTML Kit newsgroup, and of course 
they assured me that HTML Kit does not change chm settings or replace 
dlls, nor is it related to this piece of spyware. :)