Description of Guided Help for Microsoft Knowledge Base articles

Guided Help is a program that you can download from some Microsoft Knowledge Base articles. Depending on the task, Guided Help can automatically perform the task that is described in the article, or Guided Help can guide you through the steps to perform the task yourself.

Guided Help performs the steps by interacting directly with the Microsoft Windows XP user interface, or by using functions that are included with Guided Help. For steps that interact with the user interface, you see the steps occur on the screen.

For some tasks, you can select to run Guided Help in one of the following ways.

• Do it automatically: The whole task is automatically completed while you watch. You might be prompted for input if input is required.
• Show me step-by-step: Guided Help points on the screen to where you must click or type to perform the task.

For tasks that can be undone, Guided Help either includes a way to undo the actions that Guided Help performs or Guided Help generates instructions that tell you how to undo the task.

List of Microsoft Knowledge Base articles that include Guided Help

To see a list of Microsoft Knowledge Base articles that include Guided Help, click the following link:

How to download and run Guided Help from a Microsoft Knowledge Base article

1. Locate the "Guided Help" section of the Microsoft Knowledge Base article.
2. Click the Download Guided Help link.
   
   
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3. If you are prompted to accept the license agreement, read the license agreement, and then click I Accept if you want to accept the terms of the license agreement.
   
   
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4. In the Security Warning dialog boxes, click Run.
   
   
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5. In the Guided Help window, click either This computer or Another computer, and then click Next.
   
   
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   Note If you click Another computer, Guided Help prompts you to save the Guided_Help.exe file on a removable medium such as a USB flash drive.
   
   
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   You can insert the removable medium in another computer, and then run the Guided_Help.exe program file. The Another computer option may be required if you are performing a task on a computer that does not have a working Internet connection.
6. If you are prompted to select a way to run Guided Help, click either Do It Automatically or Show me step-by-step.
   
   
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