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Bob - 17 May 2005 19:39 GMT

The Dynamic Help on a few of our machines take 10-15 minutes to load the help
after the developer presses the F1 key - locking them out of doing anything
with that instance of VS. The rest don't. In the lower left status bar of
the IDE, it is set to "Downloading...". In the options/environment/help
settings, we're all set the same - Preferred language = English, Preferred
collection = Visual Studio .Net 2003 Combined Help Collection, and Internal
Help checked.

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clintonG - 18 May 2005 22:40 GMT

I seem to recall there being a configuration option during installation that
asked if help should update over the web just like the help functions in
Office Systems. If that recollection is correct I would think there is a
registry entry that can be modified.

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> The Dynamic Help on a few of our machines take 10-15 minutes to load the
> help
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> Internal
> Help checked.

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Bob - 23 May 2005 18:10 GMT

This is still an active problem. Any help would be appreciated.

> The Dynamic Help on a few of our machines take 10-15 minutes to load the help
> after the developer presses the F1 key - locking them out of doing anything
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> collection = Visual Studio .Net 2003 Combined Help Collection, and Internal
> Help checked.

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