Windows xp help center lacking

[ccastelein]

i recently upgraded to windows xp from windows 2000...
the "help center and support" is really lacking from
windows 2000...

Is there a way to change the xp help to be like windows 2000 help ?

for example: i use the windows help to quickly look up the dos commands for their relavent switches... such as
xcopy c:\xxxx c:\yyyy /d/i/y

but in the INDEX portion of xp help, not all the dos commands are there. It doesnt even list symbols such as & | etc.
This is terrible. please tell me theres a solution to this... I feel like im back in Windows ME help... which was completly useless.

ccastelein

 

[micker377]

Basically, Windows XP doesn't have DOS as we know it. There is enough script to run SOME DOS programs, but as for the common commands - forget it.

 

[linney]

Have you tried typing this location in the Start Run box?

C:\WINDOWS\Help\ntcmds.chm

It will give you the information about XP Commands and MS-DOS in XP.

This location might give you a more familiar Help to search through. You may have to click on Index (just once) to load the full searchable index of contents.

F:\WINDOWS\Help\windows.chm


Using filters. (from Help and Support)

Used in conjunction with the command redirection pipe character (|), a command filter is a command within a command that reads the command's input, transforms the input, and then writes the output. Filter commands help you sort, view, and select parts of a command output.

Filter commands divide, rearrange, or extract portions of the information that passes through them. The following table lists filter commands that are available in Windows XP.

Read on....

 

[bcastner]

right-click your desktop and run the New shortcut wizard. The target of the shortcut should be: %Windir%\Help\ntcmds.chm