Comments on: You’re a 32bit Help File… We won’t let you work on Windows…

By: Tyler Reguly

Tyler Reguly — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:20:06 +0000

Thanks Carter,

To confirm that here's the MD5 from Vista:
File: winhelp.exe
Size: 256192
MD5: 8E6F7D51A5CB299C25621C6C1AB57E84
Path: C:Windowswinhelp.exe

For those interested, here's the MD5 and Version of winhlp32.exe on Vista

File: winhlp32.exe
Size: 296960
MD5: 35E1492C80C39055955F6E7575450042
Path: C:Windowswinhlp32.exe

Version: 50.0.6000.16387

By: Carter

Carter — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:11:39 +0000

then they did change something:
Winhelp32: version 5.1.2600.2180
Size: 283.648
MD5: 3371D02425BF6D8CA33DE9C92F359519

By: Tyler Reguly

Tyler Reguly — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:11:13 +0000

Thanks Carter,

To confirm that here’s the MD5 from Vista:
File: winhelp.exe
Size: 256192
MD5: 8E6F7D51A5CB299C25621C6C1AB57E84
Path: C:\Windows\winhelp.exe

For those interested, here’s the MD5 and Version of winhlp32.exe on Vista

File: winhlp32.exe
Size: 296960
MD5: 35E1492C80C39055955F6E7575450042
Path: C:\Windows\winhlp32.exe

Version: 50.0.6000.16387

By: Carter

Carter — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:22:08 +0000

I’ll bite:
Everything in ()’s are the description
On Server 2003: 3.10.0.425 (Windows Help Engine application file), (C)1991-1992
On XP SP2: 3.10.0.425 (Windows Help Engine application file), (C)1991-1992
On 2k: 3.10.0.425 (Windows Help Engine application file) (C) 1991-1992
On 98: 4.10.1998 (Windows WinHlp32 Launcher) (C) 1991-1998. 3kb

So it seems that the vista winhelp is the same as the 2k/xp/2k3 one.

For fun: MD5 of the XP: 8E6F7D51A5CB299C25621C6C1AB57E84 (english version) 2K: 8E6F7D51A5CB299C25621C6C1AB57E84 (english)
2K3: 8E6F7D51A5CB299C25621C6C1AB57E84 (english)

So there you have it. It’s exactly the same file.

Now I want my paycheck