FIX: Visual SourceSafe Help System Searches for Wrong HLP File

• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows, versions 4.0, 5.0
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows NT, versions 4.0, 5.0
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows 95, versions 4.0, 5.0

SYMPTOMS

When Visual SourceSafe is started and an invalid user name is entered, the "User not found" dialog box appears. If you click the Help button or press the F1 key, the appropriate Visual SourceSafe Help file is not called.

When Help is invoked from the User Not Found dialog box, one of the following occurs:

• You are prompted with this question:

  Cannot find the ...\SSEXP.HLP file. Do you want to try to find this file yourself?

  NOTE: This file is not installed with Visual SourceSafe 4.0.



• The following error message appears and a blank Windows Help screen appears.

  Cannot find Help file

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Visual SourceSafe version 6.0 for Windows.

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Keywords : kbSSafe400bug kbSSafe500bug kbSSafe600fix
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Issue type : kbbug