How to open HLP file?
The software referred to as HLP Opener allows you to freely work with HLP files, including opening their contents. If you have the appropriate software installed on your device, opening the HLP file should be done without any problems by double-clicking on the file's icon. If the appropriate software is on your operating system, the file should open in the associated application when you click it. However, the problem is not always solved so quickly. Follow the steps of the instructions below to try to solve it.
9 steps to open HLP file
The following recommendations and steps will help you open the Windows Help Format file in case you cannot do it in the standard way:
- Make sure that the operating system where you are trying to open the Windows Help Format file is supported by it. It may turn out that HLP files are not compatible with your system.
- No default Stata application in the system or Microsoft Windows, Adobe RoboHelp, Microsoft Help, Help Explorer Viewer will prevent you from opening HLP files. If there is no such program, install it (or download it earlier).
- Check if files with the extension HLP are associated with the application Stata or one of the programs such as Microsoft Windows, Adobe RoboHelp, Microsoft Help, Help Explorer Viewer. If this is not the case, you should manually set the program, preferably by editing the properties of the Windows Help Format file and displaying the applications available on the system that allow you to open it. On the list, search for one of the Stata, Microsoft Windows, Adobe RoboHelp, Microsoft Help, Help Explorer Viewer applications and confirm.
Software programs that open HLP file extension
- If Windows Help Format is a file from the network or some other external source, it may be defective or incomplete. In this case, although one of the Stata, Microsoft Windows, Adobe RoboHelp, Microsoft Help, Help Explorer Viewer programs is installed, the Windows Help Format file cannot be opened. If possible, you can try to open the Windows Help Format file directly from its source.
- In case the Windows Help Format file is infected, the anti-virus program will prevent it from being opened. In this situation, it is recommended to scan all data media in the system for viruses.
- The Windows Help Format file may be saved in a way that is no longer supported. Sometimes it happens that despite the HLP extension, such files contain data saved in a way that prevents them from being opened by Stata or Microsoft Windows, Adobe RoboHelp, Microsoft Help, Help Explorer Viewer.
- An attempt to open the Windows Help Format file by an un-updated application may fail. In this case, it is necessary to verify the version of your software to handle HLP files and, if necessary, update it to the latest version.
- Sometimes the user unknowingly tries to open a file with a shortcut that points to a place where the file is no longer there (it may have been previously deleted).
- The inability to open the Windows Help Format file may be due to restrictions imposed on the user by the system administrator.
Useful tools
You've followed the instructions above and still haven't opened your HLP file? In this case, you can use the solutions offered by various websites. The list below presents web pages that specialize in opening HLP files.
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