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XnavxeMiyyep
Oct 13, 2003, 04:04 PM
I've always been irritated that whenever I accidentally press the help button on my keyboard, the help viewer always pops up and interupts whatever I was doing, so I've deleted the help viewer. Is anyone else here irritated by Help Viewer, or do you find it useful?


oldschool
Oct 13, 2003, 05:25 PM
Originally posted by XnavxeMiyyep
I've always been irritated that whenever I accidentally press the help button on my keyboard, the help viewer always pops up and interupts whatever I was doing, so I've deleted the help viewer. Is anyone else here irritated by Help Viewer, or do you find it useful?

Yes. It takes too damn long to load. I used to think it was b/c my older computers were too slow...like my performa..but its a disgusting amount of time to load even on my 1ghz g4.
tpjunkie
Oct 13, 2003, 05:45 PM
Yeah, Help is no help at all....
XnavxeMiyyep
Oct 13, 2003, 06:08 PM
Originally posted by oldschool
Yes. It takes too damn long to load. I used to think it was b/c my older computers were too slow...like my performa..but its a disgusting amount of time to load even on my 1ghz g4. It did load very slowly. I always had to force-quit it when it opened on my Dual 867 G4.
rainman::|:|
Oct 13, 2003, 06:32 PM
i use it maybe twice a year. when i need to find some obscure, odd thing, in a program i don't use much... it's faster to open a browser and google the query (possibly several times over) than loading it... i don't understand why it's so slow...

i used to hit the help button a lot, but as i got more skilled it stopped happening. almost never do it now...

pnw
Doctor Q
Oct 13, 2003, 07:16 PM
Under OS 7 thru 9, there was a freeware extension you could install that disabled the Help key. You had to press another combination, e.g., Command-Help, to get Help. Since it seems that 90% of Help-key-presses are accidental, it would be nice if there was something similar for OS X. I'm sure Apple is not going to provide a way to disable their own Help key!
Catfish_Man
Oct 13, 2003, 07:34 PM
Thankfully help viewer doesn't suck so much in 10.3
tpjunkie
Oct 13, 2003, 08:32 PM
Thankfully help viewer doesn't suck so much in 10.3

That's it, I'm gonna upgrade when it comes out then ;)