{"id":3032,"date":"2013-09-15T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T13:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2013-09-15T13:21:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T13:21:05","slug":"cant-open-chm-files-in-windows-8-64-bit-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/cant-open-chm-files-in-windows-8-64-bit-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t Open CHM Files in Windows 8 64-bit System"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can’t open your chm files in Windows 8 64-bit operating system? CHM is a popular format for e-books and help documents and it’s natively supported on Windows. But when you double-click a .chm file in Windows 8, you may be prompted with selecting a program to open it and Windows 8 can’t automatically locate a program associated with .chm files. In this article we’ll show you a quick trick to fix this problem easily.<\/p>\n

Can’t Open CHM Files in Windows 8 64-bit System? How to Fix It?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the WINDOWS and R keys together to bring up the Power User menu, and then click on Command Prompt (Admin)<\/strong>. This will open an elevated command prompt.<\/li>\n
  2. Run the following commands:
    \nregsvr32 hhctrl.ocx
    \nregsvr32 itss.dll
    \nregsvr32 itircl.dll<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"register-chmhelp-dll\"\n<\/li>\n

  3. You’ll get a success dialog after each one. That’s all there is to it! No reboot required and everything was magically working as it should.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Can’t open your chm files in Windows 8 64-bit operating system? CHM is a popular format for e-books and help documents and it’s natively supported on Windows. But when you double-click a .chm file in Windows 8, you may be prompted with selecting a program to open it and Windows 8 can’t automatically locate a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39],"tags":[1518,40],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-8","tag-cant-open-chm-file","tag-windows-8-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}