Date parsed: 14/04/2008 23:41:26
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:41:26 +0100

Hi,

Just tested this on Vista x86 SP1 with VS2008. My help collection is set
to MSDN Jan 08 (set for off-line help only). I'm NOT seeing CPU activity
after opening a solution, opening a C++ file and then choosing "How do
I" from the help menu.

Tristan MSDN Keen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whenever I open Help (Help -> How Do I) from inside Visual Studio 2008,
> dexplore.exe takes up about 50% of the CPU and never stops. If I close help,
> the process still continues to take up 50% of the CPU. Even if I close the
> whole of Visual Studio 2008, dexplore.exe is not killed.
>
> Is there a fix for this? It's annoying having to remember to kill the
> process in the Task Manager all the time.
>
> Many thanks.


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Gerry Hickman (London UK)