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Disable dynamic help

A good tip from Husein Choroomi:

I never liked the annoying Dynamic help window in the VS.NET (Appears by pressing F1), I always disable all of the categories and topic types in the Options to increase the speed, and undock the Dynamic help window to make it nearly invisible! (The help is set to external).

Anyway, today I found a nice way to disable dynamic help completely, for doing so go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Studio\7.0\Dynamic Help

And modify the value of the Never Show DH on F1 to YES.

Posted: Jun 21 2003, 10:01 AM by Fabrice Marguerie | with 11 comment(s)
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David Viggiano said:

Amen! That abomination has annoyed me since V7 arrived.
# October 20, 2003 4:42 PM

Rore said:

Halleluiah!!
Thank you.
# January 14, 2004 9:47 AM

Heck said:

Thank god!!!!

How did you ever find this?
# January 15, 2004 6:53 PM

Fabrice said:

> How did you ever find this?

Well, I HAD to! :-)
# January 15, 2004 6:59 PM

LarsErik said:

At last..
# March 25, 2004 4:34 AM

matt said:

Thank you, from our entire development team!
# April 28, 2004 2:55 AM

George Ter-Saakov said:

Thanks.
This dynamic help has been bugging me for 6 month already.
# April 28, 2004 11:02 AM

Nismael said:

Very nice! Thanks again!

I wonder why Microsoft, the "greatest" software company in the world, didn't allow us to disable this via the option menu.... that sucked big time.

Well, I guess that search for "Dynamic" in the registry was worth it :)
# June 1, 2004 9:36 AM

TrackBack said:

# June 19, 2004 3:01 PM

Dimitri Glazkov said:

# June 14, 2006 2:11 PM

David said:

AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! It's never too late for putting down the beast... and I'm glad to notice that many other developpers are in solidarity. "640k ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981
# September 19, 2006 8:25 AM
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