Windows Vista's Guided Help

News, articles and more about the Guided Help feature in Windows Vista, and on XP

June, 2006

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  • Windows Vista's Guided Help

    Creating a Guided-Help ready application

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    Perhaps in response to our hints at plans to release Guided Help for use by ISVs, we were recently asked about what is necessary to prepare an existing Windows XP application to use Guided Help for its own features. Well, probably nothing at all. ...
  • Windows Vista's Guided Help

    Verbatim feedback from the support version of Guided Help

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    We were looking at the surveys coming back from the support version of Guided Help and were really delighted to see that we're making people's computers easier to use. I love the impact of working at Microsoft. I've included a few choice quotes below...
  • Windows Vista's Guided Help

    Guided Help SDK

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    Lots of folks have been wondering about a Guided Help SDK. One thing that's very important about Guided Help topics is that they're inexpensive to create - we have a fairly rough SDK that makes this easy (even easier once the products involved ship)....
  • Windows Vista's Guided Help

    Guided Help is in CNET's top 5 things I love about Windows Vista

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    They love it . :) To respond to the question of whether or not we'll be adding more topics: We will be adding more topics mostly though our online help (secured of course) and continuous publishing (via Windows Update, IIRC). But also check out what we...
  • Windows Vista's Guided Help

    Guided Help is RTW!

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    Guided Help is not only a Windows Vista product, it's also being used by Microsoft's support website to help people complete the steps in a kb article. We no longer tell folks to whip out regedit and check a registry key or search their harddrive for...
  • Windows Vista's Guided Help

    Guided Help - feedback

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    Hi there, I'm kicking things off here for the team. My name is James Finnigan and I'm a developer on Guided Help. We have a few people on the team and you'll probably get to know them more as they post in this space. Now that beta 2 is out there and...
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