Disable dynamic help

Saturday, June 21, 2003

Tips

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.

8 Comments

Amen! That abomination has annoyed me since V7 arrived.

David Viggiano - Monday, October 20, 2003 10:42:00 PM

Halleluiah!!

Thank you.

Rore - Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:47:00 PM

Thank god!!!!

How did you ever find this?

Heck - Friday, January 16, 2004 12:53:00 AM

> How did you ever find this?

Well, I HAD to! :-)

Fabrice - Friday, January 16, 2004 12:59:00 AM

Thank you, from our entire development team!

matt - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 8:55:00 AM

Thanks.

This dynamic help has been bugging me for 6 month already.

George Ter-Saakov - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 5:02:00 PM

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 :)

Nismael - Tuesday, June 1, 2004 3:36:00 PM

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

David - Tuesday, September 19, 2006 2:25:56 PM

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