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July 10, 2007

Microsoft Guided Help

I came across a Microsoft Knowledge Base article, How to set performance options in Windows XP which had a little surprise in it with a link for Windows XP users to install Guided Help. The help system in Window XP has never really been that helpful as if was, all these blogs and forums with Windows Tips & Tricks and help fix the broken things would not exist. Windows Vista at this stage the standard 'Help & Support' has some useful items to show you how to set or change a setting, though how long before all those help holes are found just that exist in the Windows XP help system now and you are searching and asking questions here on the Bleeding Edge forum?

With the Windows Vista 'Help & Support' you get the additional option to keep your 'Help & Support' up to date searching the online 'Help & Support' content from Microsoft instead of the 'old out of date local help file'. In time the 'Help & Support' offering may become a useful 'Help & Support' tool rather than the thing we simply don't look at as it is far to complex or out of date and useless. Add in support for 'Guided Help' for Windows XP users and things get rather helpful indeed. If Windows XP & Windows Vista users get lots more of these 'Guided Help' goodness updated in our help files that is helpful.

Due to the way 'Guided Help' interacts with your desktop screen shots and recordings are tricky, thus the shameless MSFT demo of 'Guided Help' is all I could muster up. If you do give it a try let me know if you think it actually is helpful.

Posted by Stephen at July 10, 2007 04:20 PM

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Posted by: anandasim at July 10, 2007 06:59 PM

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