[X Newbies] Help Window Help

Randy B. Singer randy at macattorney.com
Sun Feb 8 22:34:35 PST 2004


Maria Paulia Belgado said:

>What do you do when the help window is malfunctioning? :)
>
>Have the following problems:
>
>1) When I open help from finder window, it does not open to "mac help" 
>window, I have to select it from the library
>
>2) I type in something and it displays results.  But, when I press the 
>"back" button, it doesn't respond. Then it says "Help does not know 
>what to do with selected URL" then it will crash.
>
>Any ideas?


Problems with the Help facility in OS X are often fixed by running Repair 
Permissions from Disk Utility, which resides at:

Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility



Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

How To Deal With Common OS X 10.3 Panther Problems
http://www.macattorney.com/panther.html 



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