Microsoft Help Viewer
What is Microsoft Help Viewer?
Microsoft Help Viewer is software application developed by Microsoft Corporation. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 83.04% of installations running this operating system. Microsoft Help Viewer's installer is typically 64.00 MB in size and installs around 22 files. The most common release is 2.2.25420 with 36.29% of all installations currently using this version.
Microsoft Help Viewer is most popular in the United States with 57.75% of installations residing in this country.
Microsoft Help Viewer adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.
About Microsoft Help Viewer?
Microsoft Help Viewer is an offline help system (local help) developed by Microsoft, designed to accompany Visual Studio. With the Microsoft Help Viewer 1.x, users can view topics in any installed web browser, eliminating the need for a separate application such as the Microsoft Document Explorer used in previous versions. This browser-based model enhances the user experience by offering a lightweight and efficient navigation, downloading, and reading experience.
Software Behaviors
- Scheduled tasks:
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- HlpViewer.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{3EA4465F-70BD-4D54-911E-4550C80E09AD}' (runs on registration).
Startup Entries
- Registry entries:
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- HlpCtntMgr.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'VSHelpUpdate_VisualStudio12' and executes as C:\Program Files\Microsoft Help Viewer\v2.1\HlpCtntMgr.exe /operation restart /catalogName VisualStudio12 /restart UpdateCommand /locale zh-CN.
- HlpCtntMgr.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'VSHelpUpdate' and executes as C:\Program Files\Microsoft Help Viewer\v2.0\HlpCtntMgr.exe /operation restart /catalogName VisualStudio11 /restart InstallCommand /locale en-US.
Software Details
- URL:
- https://www.microsoft.com
- Support:
- https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=133405
- Installation path:
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Help Viewer\v2.2\
- Uninstaller:
- msiexec.exe /X{BFC7ED5C-03D7-366C-A768-CFF97F0A4170}
- Size:
- 64.00 MB
- Language:
- English
Microsoft Help Viewer Executable Details
- Primary executable:
- sqmapi.dll
- Name:
- Microsoft Help Viewer
- Path:
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Help Viewer\v2.2\sqmapi.dll
- MD5:
- c0780e9370b562c675cc2247e4230e5f
- SHA-1:
- –
- SHA-256:
- –
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c0780e9370b562c675cc2247e4230e5f | |
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4fd20600ad27a7cb96786ef7b9dc7868 | |
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d01819bfe03222dfa9e35a36555b6b6c | |
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6aa2393ff1fde1a61d0cf51730428f74 | |
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43f5392fbb44982e5d043943176b1e99 | |
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0293b3bbcd2772031814384696553bd4 | |
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00375a7ea9277cc1d7a40922cf8859bf |