Problems with VC++ and MSDN

[Luke schreur]

Hi,

Since a few days I've been having problems with VC++ 6.0 and MSDN. When I load a new project into VC or double click on a DSW file to load a project VC starts fine, no problem. Then when I press F1 to start the MSDN library nothing happens anymore. It seems like MSDN tries to startup but doesn't. When viewing my list of processes (I'm running Win2000 SP2) I see that process HH.EXE is taking all the CPU time (I found out that HH.EXE is being executed when starting the MSDN library). Does anyone has had similiar problems? And if so, how did you fix it? (if you did)

I'm running:
Win2000 SP2
VC++ 6.0 SP5

Regards,
Luke

[jontom]

Sounds like a disc access problem. Can you hear your hard drive being spammed when this happens?

Does it end, or do you have to kill hh.exe?

Maybe if you have a spare afternoon, you should just leave it to get on and see what happens. Maybe after a couple of hours you'll get an informative error message (or maybe the PC will crash :)

Try checking the registry and searching for useful key phrases like "hh.exe". Chances are good that that is where hh.exe checks to try and find the location of the MSDN application. Then check that MSDN is properly installed in that location. You could also try running hh.exe manually, rather than through VC++.

I'm running the same config, and I don't have any problems.

Time to change my signature. Hmmm, I wonder what I ought to put...

[Luke schreur]

Hi,

Cannot realy say if my machine would crash after a period of time. Five minutes was the longest that I would give it :) It always stopped on HH.EXE and MSDEV.EXE was "not responding". Running MSDN manualy didn't make any difference, same problem.

The otherday I installed a new version of MSDN (April 2002) and that seemed to fix the problem. I guess you're running also a newer version of MSDN instead of the origial that came with VC++ 6.0

Thanks anyways!

Regards,
Luke

[Mathematix]

Even contacted Microsoft. As I can't recall how it was resolved, you best bet is to either contact MSVC++ support on the MS website, or completely reinstall the lot - taking care to back up your projects.

My problems started after VC++ locked up on me when I was using Help.

Good luck. It only happens once!

Peace,
Mathematix.

[Luke schreur]

Finally a year later I think I found a way to solve this problem. The thing is that a year ago I reinstalled my system completely to solve this thing. This weekend the problem popped up again. I was ready to reinstall my system again like last time and I thought that a bit of messing around couldn't do much harm at this stage. After a few hours of messing around I think I found a solusion to this thing. What worked for me was to boot up Internet Explorer and to delete all your offline content. After this MSDN worked fine again. Don't ask me why or how. I hope it works for you too!

Cheers!