CHM Challenges with Windows 7

December 16, 2014September 21, 2015 ActiveX, CHM, exe, help, hh, hhctrl, htmlhelp, ocx, VB6, Windows 7

Microsoft has undergone several phases of security updates on Windows 7, that make it impossible to open a custom .chm file through the Windows Shell, using hh.exe with a passed filename parameter. This forces the developer to use the ActiveX object version of html help, hhctrl.ocx.
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