Select icon workstation: so, 'aid', so: "Help and Support Center" - > does not work.

When I select "Help and Support Center" with Microsoft, I get the error message: "Windows cannot find helpctr.exe.

Can I reinstall anything from Application or system recovery disks - or download the Microsoft HELP?  -
Or can only be re-established by dong RESTORATION?   Thanks for you help... ~!

Do you mean you see a message like this:

Windows cannot find 'helpctr.exe.  Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again.  To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click search.

The Center help and Support sometimes get broken with overzealous cleaning and there are a lot of things to 'try' who sometimes work and sometimes they are not. Sometimes people drop everything simply and never reuse Help and Support Center, but it can still be repaired.

Do you now or nave already used third-party applications on your system where the product description includes descriptive as sentences:

cleaner, mechanic, detective, doctor, heal, optimize, clean up, tune up, speed up, set towards the top, compact, compress, faster, power, boost, boost, gum, muncher. guaranteed or all that has an icon that looks like a key, the key or the screwdriver?

We will restore some things in the registry who sometimes kill himself by malicious software or, sometimes, these cleaning programs.

Before making any changes to your registry (although I hope that this update), make a copy of your registry with this free and popular tool:

http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/ERUNT.html

Then go to this page WWW of Riou (thanks, Ramesh).

http://WindowsXP.MVPs.org/startmenuhelp.htm

When you click the file startmenuhelp.reg on this page with your browser, you will see a bunch of text which is information of record that you want to apply to your system.  It seems daunting, but it's not so bad.

Press Ctrl + A to select all the text, then press Ctrl-C to copy the text to the Windows Clipboard.

Click Start, run, and then in the box, type:

notebook

Click OK to open a new Notepad file.

Press Ctrl + V to paste the information that you copied into the Windows Clipboard in the Notepad file.  Save the new file in Notepad on your desktop and name the new file something he can hold, as:

startmenuhelp.reg

Quit Notepad and double click the file startmenuhelp.reg on your desktop and respond in the affirmative to the question about adding information to your registry.

Test your help and your support now, then restart and test again to make sure that the changes 'stick' with a reboot.

You can delete the file startmenuhelp.reg to your desktop.

If that does not do so, you can reinstall the whole (not reinstall XP - just the help and Support Center)

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