Microsoft KB Archive/254539

= INFO: Support for Driver Help files on Windows 2000 =

Article ID: 254539

Article Last Modified on 3/1/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q254539



SUMMARY
Driver writers may provide driver Help files in Windows Help (*.hlp) format. However, because Windows Help was written to run on a 16-bit code base and does not support Unicode, it displays garbage characters for languages that use an extended character set (for example, Eastern European and Far Eastern languages). Further, Windows Help is not supported on the 64-bit code base.



MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft recommends that driver providers convert their help files to HTML Help (*.chm) format. This new HTML Help format is supported both on 32-bit and 64-bit code bases.

Keywords: kbinfo KB254539

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