WinHelp
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Microsoft WinHelp is a proprietary format for online help files that can be displayed by the Microsoft Help browser winhelp.exe or winhlp32.exe. The file format is based on Rich Text Format (RTF). It remained a popular Help platform from Windows 3.0 through Windows XP. WinHelp was removed in Windows Vista purportedly to discourage software developers from using the obsolete format and encourage use of newer help formats. Support for WinHelp files would eventually be removed entirely in Windows 10.
Key facts
- File format.caption
- Help File
- File format.extension
- .hlp
- File format.magic
- 3F 5F 03 00
- File format.owner
- Microsoft
- File format.released
- 1990
- File format.extended from
- RTF
- File format.standard
- No
- Software.name
- Microsoft WinHelp
- Software.screenshot
- WindowsMME-96-Help.png
- Software.screenshot_size
- 240px
- Software.developer
- Microsoft
- Software.replaced_by
- Microsoft Compiled HTML Help
- Software.included with
- Windows 3.0, Windows 95, Windows XP
- Software.operating system
- Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
- Software.genre
- Help system
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- file format
- Based on
- Rich Text Format
- Image
- WindowsMME-96-Help.png
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- inception
- 1990-00-00
- file extension
- hlp
- replaced by
- Microsoft Compiled HTML Help
- file format identification pattern
- 0000FFFFFFFF
- media type
- zz-application/zz-winassoc-hlp
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Article · 中文
Microsoft WinHelp是Windows操作系統上联机帮助文件的一種格式，用戶可以通過Microsoft帮助浏览器winhelp.exe或winhlp32.exe兩款程序看到該格式文件的內容。該文件格式是基于RTF衍生而來。而在Windows 3.0系統到Windows XP中，常見的幫助文件格式依然以該格式為主。WinHelp在Windows Vista中被删除，据称是微軟为阻止软件开发人员使用过时的格式并鼓励使用更新的帮助文件格式。
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