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Title: Win32hlp on Windows 10/11
Post by: fearless on August 15, 2023, 02:18:54 AM
Had major issues not been able to open hlp files for some reason. So spent some time trying various solutions, eventually came across this on github that helped me out: https://github.com/knuth-konrad/winhlp32-on-windows10

I found that i had to issue this command to expand the .msu file:

expand -F:* Windows8.1-KB917607-x64.msu Windows8.1-KB917607-x64.cab c:\temp
and this to expand the cab files:

expand -F:* Windows8.1-KB917607-x64.cab c:\temp
from there i was able to access the various files required
Title: Re: Win32hlp on Windows 10/11
Post by: Vortex on August 15, 2023, 02:22:10 AM
Hello fearless,

Win32.exe for hlp files on Windows 10 :

https://masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=5201.0

You can check jimg's solution in that thread.
Title: Re: Win32hlp on Windows 10/11
Post by: zedd151 on August 15, 2023, 02:23:29 AM
https://masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=5201.0

Erol, you beat me to it.

Quick on the draw! :biggrin:
Title: Re: Win32hlp on Windows 10/11
Post by: fearless on August 15, 2023, 03:31:16 AM
I tried a few solutions similar to that, but kept getting a 9009 error, which after some searching is related to the multilingual files .mui stored in \windows\en-US and \windows\system32\en-US. So the github link had instructions related to those files as well, which fixed my issue.