Network CHM files

I have an application that can be installed to a network
drive and then used from multiple workstations. Windows/Vista
security now makes it difficult to just install the app and use the
CHM help files from the server. I do not want the help to live on
local machines and it is not feasable to store the help on a
webserver since not all workstations may have web access. If there
are any suggestions of how to be solve this problem, they would be
much appreciated.
Note that this is a old legacy app that has happily used HLP
files from the network for many years. I just migrated all of the
HLP files to CHM but I am still at square one it seems...
Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.

WebHelp sits on a server and can be accessed from there by
the application.
By pushed, do you mean installed? If the user nonetheless
will always have access to the server to obtain the help, then is
that an option.
If not, you can either install a CHM locally or now you can
install the webhelp locally. Previously running webhelp locally
brought up a yellow information bar unless various IE settings were
changed. Not really what you wanted for an end user. Now you can
create the webhelp with the Mark of the Web added and it will run
locally. I believe links to PDFs may not work so check that out if
relevant.
I am guessing that for your developers, it means they only
have to change the path to the help so it could be quite a saving.
Otherwise the calls to a CHM topic would be different.

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