{"id":7173,"date":"2007-04-13T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2007\/04\/13\/having-problems-opening-compiled-help-files-chm\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:52:26","slug":"having-problems-opening-compiled-help-files-chm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/having-problems-opening-compiled-help-files-chm\/","title":{"rendered":"Having problems opening compiled Help files (.chm)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s recently come to our attention that some users have been having problems opening the Team Foundation Installation Guide, available from the <a class=\"\" title=\"Microsoft Download Center\" href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?linkid=40042\">Microsoft Download Center<\/a>.&nbsp; It turns out that this is not a problem with the installation guide itself, but a problem with all .chm files that comes up occasionally.&nbsp; If you download the installation guide (or any other compiled help file) and see nothing but blank pages when you open it, you should review the content of <a class=\"\" title=\"this KB article\" href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/902225\/\">this KB article<\/a>.&nbsp; You should also verify whether the content is being blocked from display by the security settings of Internet Explorer 7 and Microsoft Windows Vista; some security settings will block the display of compiled help file content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;We hope this helps you with any problems you might experience with compiled help files.&nbsp; As always, if you have any questions or comments about our documentation, please let us know!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;-=Susan<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s recently come to our attention that some users have been having problems opening the Team Foundation Installation Guide, available from the Microsoft Download Center.&nbsp; It turns out that this is not a problem with the installation guide itself, but a problem with all .chm files that comes up occasionally.&nbsp; If you download the installation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It&#8217;s recently come to our attention that some users have been having problems opening the Team Foundation Installation Guide, available from the Microsoft Download Center.&nbsp; It turns out that this is not a problem with the installation guide itself, but a problem with all .chm files that comes up occasionally.&nbsp; If you download the installation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}