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Find install location of Help & Manual executable

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Hi all

I'm wondering if it is possible to find the install location of Help and Manual in an easy way? I've had a look at the registry hoping that there would be an entry giving me the install path, but it seems that there is no entry for H&M in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry hive. Is there a way to easily find out where H&M is installed or should I just search through all the directories on the disk?

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Patrick
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Hi Patrick,

You can find this in HKCU > Software > ECSOFTWARE > Help & Manual 5: AppPath in the current version of Help & Manual. :)
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Hi Tim

I must be missing something because I can't find it. My registry hive does have an entry in: HKCU/Software/ECSOFTWARE/Help & Manual 5. And there are lots of values under that key but AppPath isn't one of them ...

Could this have something to do with the fact that I installed H&M in a per machine install? Or maybe because I'm on Win7 x64? Although I have looked in the Wow6432Node in the registry (this should contain the 32-bit registry) but that doesn't have any entries for ECSOFTWARE.

For the record, here's what I found in my HKCU/Software/ECSOFTWARE/Help & Manual 5 entry:

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"LastProjects"=""
"CheckUpdateInterval"="0"
"PerformanceOptimized"="0"
"ShowHint"="1"
"AutoBackup"="0"
"ProjectOverviewAutoload"="0"
"ProjectOverviewMaxRecent"="10"
"WelcomeDefaultPage"="index1"
"WelcomeExpandFavorites"="0"
"RibbonColorScheme"="0"
"OpenLastUsed"="0"
"LastOpenDir"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\EC Software\\HelpAndManual5"
"SaveRecentImages"="1"
"DefaultImageEditor"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\EC Software\\HelpAndManual5\\Impict.exe"
"EnableDragAndDrop"="1"
"EditorTOCReadonlyColor"="536870911"
"EditorShowSymbols"="0"
"EditorShowSpaces"="0"
"EditorAutoCorrectID"="0"
"EditorSyncBookmarks"="1"
"EditorLiveSpelling"="1"
"EditorAutodetectURL"="1"
"EditorTableGridLines"="1"
"EditorXMLFontName"="Courier New"
"EditorXMLFontSize"="8"
"EditorXMLWordWrap"="0"
"HiddenNodesShow"="1"
"HiddenNodesFontColor"="12632256"
"EditorRulerUnits"="0"
"EditorRulerHorz"="1"
"EditorRulerVert"="1"
"EditorCustomDPI"="0"
"EditorCustomColors"=""
"TopicDefaultBuild"="ALL"
"TopicDefaultStatus"="-1"
"TopicChangeStatus"="-1"
"EmptyClipboardOnExit"="0"
"CompHLP"=""
"CompCHM"="c:\\Program Files (x86)\\HTML Help Workshop\\hhc.exe"
"CompHXS"=""
"PDFDevice"="Display"
"CompilerMessages"="15"
"CompilerStrictIncludes"="1"
"CompilerRemoveDeadLinks"="0"
"CompilerTolerateAsianLang"="0"
"InsertMOTW"="1"
"ZoomIndexer"=""
"QATButtons"=""
"QATBelowRibbon"="0"
"Shortcuts"=""
"rgiInsertSymbol.0.Visible"="1"
"rgiInsertSymbol.1.Visible"="1"
"rgiInsertSymbol.2.Visible"="1"
"rgiInsertSymbol.3.Visible"="1"
"MRUCount"="3"
"MRUPic0"=""
"MRUPic1"=""
"MRUPic2"=""
"MRUPic3"=""
"MRUPic4"=""
"MRUPic5"=""
"MRUPic6"=""
"MRUPic7"=""
"MRUPic8"=""
"MRUPic9"=""
"MRUPic10"=""
"MRUPic11"=""
"MRUPic12"=""
"MRUPic13"=""
"MRUPic14"=""
"MRUPic15"=""
"MRUPic16"=""
"MRUPic17"=""
"MRUPic18"=""
"MRUPic19"=""
"AutoUpdateLast"="40268"
"ShowProgress"="458 410 "
"MRU0"="C:\\documents\\p.velde\\projects\\build system\\products\\predict\\doc\\Call Import\\Call Import User Guide_ENGLISH US\\Call Import User Guide_ENGLISH US.hmxp"
"MRU1"="C:\\documents\\p.velde\\issues\\SI3546\\src\\doc\\Call Import\\Call Import User Guide_MASTER\\Call Import User Guide_MASTER.hmxp"
"MRU2"="C:\\documents\\p.velde\\issues\\SI3546\\src\\doc\\Call Import\\Call Import User Guide_ENGLISH US\\Call Import User Guide_ENGLISH US.hmxp"
No AppPath :(
Any other suggestions of where to look?

Thanks

Patrick
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Hi Patrick,

I've asked the developers for the skinny on this, I'll get back to you as soon as I have some hard information on it.
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Hi Patrick,

Apparently we don't write this value any more, it was on my machine because it got written in the very early days of HM5. However, there's a workaround: You can get the application path by polling the path stored for the .hmxz and .hmxp file extension associations. 8)
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