CNT File

[Mitch Hatfield]

Can anyone tell me what type of file this is please?

It appears within a program folder and when u left click on it, it launches the program, even though that folder also contains the normal .exe file. ??:confused: :confused:

See below:

[david eaton]

Hi Mitch.
This might help.

.CNT Help File Contents (and other contents needs)

From HERE (http://filext.com/) .

David

[Paul Komski]

.hlp (Help files) as opposed to .chm (Hypertext Help Files) need to be compiled by a program called Microsoft Help Workshop. It can be downloaded, if you want to start compiling your own Help files or Context Sensitive Help for Programs.

If a .cnt file is opening another program, then I assume that somehow the .cnt file-extension has been associated with that program and not with MHW (hhw.exe), which would be normal.

When compiling Help Files, various components may be created. An Index, The "Pages"/Text (and a number of Titles) as well as the way the Help File should look and one or a number of Tables of Contents. These TOCs are the .cnt files and which are usually (but not necessarily) referenced by a Help file in the same folder.

They need to be there but are not supposed to be accessed directly unless you are actually compiling help.

;)

btw:- If you r-click on the file and open with Notepad you should see a relationship between the text there and the associated "contents" of its (hopefully) adjacent .hlp file.