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Starting Mercury's help on Win7's services desktop?

Well, there are certainly a few here who run Mercury on Win7 so I guess you'll just have to wait until they spot this.

I use Mercury on Windows Storage Server 2008 under the administrator login and the help files display without any problems both via Mercury and by opening mercury.hlp from the installation folder.

<P>Well, there are certainly a few here who run Mercury on Win7 so I guess you'll just have to wait until they spot this.</P> <P>I use Mercury on Windows Storage Server 2008 under the administrator login and the help files display without any problems both via Mercury and by opening mercury.hlp from the installation folder.</P>

Thanks to the age-old AUTOEXNT I'm running Mercury as SYSTEM in Win7.  It appears on the services desktop to which I can switch with ease.  While there, I cannot get Mercury's help to appear although I have installed the KB917607 update which brings back "Windows Help" capability (which works when I'm on my nowmal desktop).  Does anyone have an idea why this won't work and how I might get it to work?  Thanks.

 - Vince

<P>Thanks to the age-old AUTOEXNT I'm running Mercury as SYSTEM in Win7.  It appears on the services desktop to which I can switch with ease.  While there, I cannot get Mercury's help to appear although I have installed the KB917607 update which brings back "Windows Help" capability (which works when I'm on my nowmal desktop).  Does anyone have an idea why this won't work and how I might get it to work?  Thanks.</P> <P> - Vince</P>

How are you starting Mercury's help? Have you tried double-clicking the 'mercury.hlp' file in the root of the Mercury installation folder? Do you see any error messages displayed or events logged?

How are you starting Mercury's help? Have you tried double-clicking the 'mercury.hlp' file in the root of the Mercury installation folder? Do you see any error messages displayed or events logged?

If I try to invoke the help from the Mercury menu I see nothing and get nothing in Mercury's system messages or in the Windows event log.  For testing purposes, I also have a command shell running on the services desktop.  If, from there, I try "[path\]winhlp32.exe [path\]mercury.hlp" there's the same result (nothing).  If I try that command using RUNAS (some user) I get an "Access denied" message in the console but no hint about access to what. "Nt authority\system" has sufficient access to winhlp32.exe and mercury.hlp.

FWIW, I also cannot launch the command shell's (JPSoft's TCC) help, a CHM file.  When I try, the results are as above. I can do most anything else while on the services desktop (as "nt authority\system").  It is possible that the two help systems (HLP, CHM) require a user profile, or a profile more elaborate that the "system" user has (but that's just a wild guess).

<P>If I try to invoke the help from the Mercury menu I see nothing and get nothing in Mercury's system messages or in the Windows event log.  For testing purposes, I also have a command shell running on the services desktop.  If, from there, I try "[path\]winhlp32.exe [path\]mercury.hlp" there's the same result (nothing).  If I try that command using RUNAS (some user) I get an "Access denied" message in the console but no hint about access to what. "Nt authority\system" has sufficient access to winhlp32.exe and mercury.hlp.</P> <P>FWIW, I also cannot launch the command shell's (JPSoft's TCC) help, a CHM file.  When I try, the results are as above. I can do most anything else while on the services desktop (as "nt authority\system").  It is possible that the two help systems (HLP, CHM) require a user profile, or a profile more elaborate that the "system" user has (but that's just a wild guess).</P>

You may be better off asking on their forum for help

http://jpsoft.com/forums/

<P>You may be better off asking on their forum for help</P> <P><A href="http://jpsoft.com/forums/">http://jpsoft.com/forums/</A></P>

I have (I'm a regular there).  But the same (?) problem affects Mercury.  And I figured more Mercury users would be familiar with the Win7 services desktop than TCC users.

I have (I'm a regular there).  But the same (?) problem affects Mercury.  And I figured more Mercury users would be familiar with the Win7 services desktop than TCC users.
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