I have just installed some older 32-bit software with a .hlp file on my Windows 7 64-bit system. The software directs me to a page on the Microsoft site with a download for a validation code creator that, when it opens, reports that it is out of date.
After a lot of searching and looking at pages for older versions of Windows (as Microsoft was helpful enough to inform me without directing me to the right page), I found:
Required Activex control is downloadable here (and it may be necessary to open this in Internet Explorer, I’m not sure:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971033
Then I had to find the right version of the utility which opens .hlp files.
This page (not at Microsoft) finally worked:
http://www.delphi7.nl/download.php?file=Windows6.1-KB917607-x64.msu&typefile=tutorials
I hope that I can save other people the same hour-long wild goose chase I had.
