Comments on: Re-enabling WinHelp on Windows 10 https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/08/05/re-enabling-winhelp-on-windows-10/ Fun with Virtualization Tue, 05 Oct 2021 02:13:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/08/05/re-enabling-winhelp-on-windows-10/comment-page-1/#comment-260232 Sat, 26 Dec 2020 08:51:32 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=8669#comment-260232 In reply to Zafer Balkan.

Winhelp was an excellent attack vector. and a great fileformat. It’s missed.

]]> By: Zafer Balkan https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/08/05/re-enabling-winhelp-on-windows-10/comment-page-1/#comment-260226 Sat, 26 Dec 2020 06:54:35 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=8669#comment-260226 Back in the day, we used Windows 2000 at high school. But the network management software the IT installed on those workstations were for Windows 98 and winhelp was old too. Through the winhelp UI, I managed to bypass the NT’s security boundaries and create a local admin account. Thanks to winhelp.exe, I could just switch user and do anything I want. No doubt they removed that for security.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/08/05/re-enabling-winhelp-on-windows-10/comment-page-1/#comment-200588 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 01:50:00 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=8669#comment-200588 In reply to Chris M..

I had issues trying to cleanly extract it, but I had this NT 3.1 installation handy…

I’m not sure what their ‘books’ thing is, along with all their other weird formats they seem to have regarding Visual Studio, but it certainly feels like having the MSDN CD’s gave a LOT more information.

]]> By: Chris M. https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/08/05/re-enabling-winhelp-on-windows-10/comment-page-1/#comment-200585 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 00:09:19 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=8669#comment-200585 The latest version of WinHlp32 is 50.1.7600.16386. Its whatever Microsoft’s re-enabler for Windows 7 installed. Didn’t Microsoft deprecate the CHM files recently, or was that just another rumor? They don’t even use the format in their own product’s help files!

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