Essentially the same method is employed using a Group Policy object. This is described in the article under "Enterprise customers - Method 2".
Fabio Pagano posted a solution that only allows chm files within a specified folder to run. You or your IT people or your customers may prefer that as it is more restrictive and any malicious attacker would rely on you saving their chm file to your folder.
It's for you to decide how likely that is. The above will allow any CHM in those folders to be opened. Use this format to restrict it to a specific file. You can also used mapped drive paths if you are happy the mapping from that PC will not be changed. Again this method could be deployed on all PCs on the intranet using a Group Policy object.
It works on the registry of a single PC. Even if you do have admin rights, you should check with your IT Administrator that they are happy for you make this change. Your developers can also use this tool as part of their installation routine. Note that whilst it can be run in silent mode you should consider doing so very carefully. Even in silent mode, the user installing your software must have admin rights to enable the changes to be made. However, if they have such rights they will be unaware of the registry change made and the IT administrator might not be too happy about that.
It could be politically unwise. Much better to point out that this change will be made and give the user the chance to opt out. Click here to visit the Help and Manual site. If you find the information and tutorials on my site save you time figuring it out for yourself and help improve what you produce, please consider making a small donation.
Topic Revisions. Link to Knowledge Base Article removed as no longer on Microsoft site. Dealt with opening downloaded CHM flles. The CHM file should now work. In order to be able to use CHM files from the network, an intervention in the registry is necessary. The problem may also occur if the CHM file was downloaded from the Internet.
A message appears when the CHM file is started. Despite confirmation of the message, the content remains white. Hover over 'Open Command Prompt' and choose 'Open command prompt as administrator' Alternatively, click the Windows Start button and type "cmd" in the Windows Search box, right-click on Command Prompt and choose 'Run as administrator'. Type "help. Wait for the command to process A message will indicate if it was successful One of the executions the 'help.
Sometimes using the environment variables won't work, so you'll need to explicitly define the path to the help file in the 'retailer. Follow step 3 of Option 6 above to make the corrections. This character cannot be used as well as "?
All those have special meaning. Try to remove all hashes and other special characters from any of the folder names in the path where POSitive is installed. Sasats - if you zip it and view it within the zip, it works because it's now local and not networked. MS is blocking it intentionally. You can stop the KB from loading but you're going to have to stop patching going forward not really an option.
To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Spiceworks Help Desk. The help desk software for IT. Track users' IT needs, easily, and with only the features you need. Hash is a registered character which is used for hyperlinks. This character can not be used as well as "? All those have special meaning. Try to remove all hashes and other special characters from the file and directory name. That is why Windows security updates may block its content.
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