How do I specify a different location for the Help Browser files?
 Here are the steps required to configure Mathematica to access the Help Browser files from the CD. | 1. | Click from the menu to open the “Option Inspector”. |
| 2. | At the top of the resulting dialog box, select “Show option values for” → . |
| 3. | Type “SystemHelpPath” into the “Lookup” field. |
| 4. | Two options will likely be given: |
| | {$PreferencesDirectory, $TopDirectory} |
| 5. | Modify this list as follows. |
| | {$PreferencesDirectory, $TopDirectory, FrontEnd`FileName[{"E:","PC","Files"}]} |
| 6. | Rebuild the index by clicking in the menu bar. |
Note that the above entry assumes that your CD drive is called . If your CD drive is named something else, then replace in the entry with your CD drive's name.  Download this FAQ as a Mathematica 5.2 Notebook
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