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What was that story about the WinHelp pen-writing-in-book animation?

August 17, 2010 Aug 17, 2010 08/17/10

Raymond Chen

The first time you open a WinHelp file, you get this pen-writing-in-book animation while WinHelp does um something which it passes off as preparing Help file for first use or something similarly vague. I remember a conversation about that animation. The Windows shell team suggested to the author of WinHelp that the program use the shell ...