{"id":107,"date":"2005-12-13T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/13\/vs-net-2005-help-bug-cannot-find-server"},"modified":"2005-12-13T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T14:22:24","slug":"vs-net-2005-help-bug-cannot-find-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"VS.NET 2005 Help bug &#8211; &#8220;cannot find server&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!166\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<div>Since I don&#8217;t have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotnetbugs.com\">DotNetBugs.com<\/a> up and running yet, I figure I&#8217;ll put this here for now&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>After installing Visual Studio 2005, you may find that trying to access local help results in an error saying &quot;Cannot Find Server&quot;.\u00a0 If you look at the URL you can see it clearly isn&#8217;t attempting to access a server on the Internet, but rather content on your machine.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>After spending much time Googling around, I found enough hints to get to the solution.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>First, log out of your current user and log in as another user with Administrator priveleges.\u00a0 Even if your current user has administrator priveleges, you <strong>must<\/strong> log in as someone else.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Second,\u00a0navigate to the Local Settings directory for the user that is having the problem.\u00a0 For example, if your login is Bob, and you are now logged in as Administrator, chances are that &quot;c:documents and settingsBobLocal Settings&quot; is the path you want.\u00a0 Make sure that you have &quot;Show Hidden Files and Folders&quot; turned on in Folder Options in explorer.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Third, delete the &quot;Temporary Internet Files&quot; directory.\u00a0 You won&#8217;t miss it.\u00a0 Windows will recreate it as soon as it needs it.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Finally, log back in as yourself, then bring up VS.NET help.\u00a0 At this point, everything will be peachy.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Hope this helps someone!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I don&#8217;t have DotNetBugs.com up and running yet, I figure I&#8217;ll put this here for now&#8230; \u00a0 After installing Visual Studio 2005, you may find that trying to access local help results in an error saying &quot;Cannot Find Server&quot;.\u00a0 If you look at the URL you can see it clearly isn&#8217;t attempting to access&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}