Context sensitive help not working in VS 2008 - visual-studio

This seems like a petty question, but this situation is starting to get annoying:
When I'm working in VS 2008 and I want to get context-sensitive help, I highlight the term/keyword/window that I want help on, and I push F1. It brings up the MSDN help window, but it always gives me a "Page not Found"/broken link on the start, and I have to go to the search page and search on the term that I'm looking for, which is annoying for starters, and sometimes the term is ambiguous and I have to go hunting through tens of different options before I get the right help page.
Anyone else have this problem, or know how to fix it?
Thanks!

Have you tried messing with your environment-help-online options? You may want to try: "try online first, then local" or "try local only, not online". I don't have this problem, so I can't verify this as a solution, but it's something you may want to try.

Solution (sort of...)
I switched to using the "Integrated Help Viewer" instead of the "External Help Viewer", and now it works. I still don't know why the external viewer doesn't work, and I'll give answer credit to whoever can help me set up the external viewer properly...

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I know that sound like a stupid question, and we can find many answer on google.
However, i've been trying for one hour and it still not working.
The question is prety simple, i'm coding on visual studio code on Mac OS.
And i want to instert tab when i press tab, and not 4 spaces.
It it supposes to be very simple :
Go on "code"->"preferences"->"users stting"
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// Insert spaces when pressing Tab.
"editor.insertSpaces": false
Into : settings.json
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(I've save it, close visual, reboot mac, still not working)
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(I've save it, close visual, reboot mac, still not working)
--> One thing is missing - did you try it with a completely new file? ;)
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Windows7 explorer context strip hook?

Hy everybody,
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regards
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See:
http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9517
Btw: I misread topic to begin with; gui 'context' related material in Windows is often taken to deal with right-click menus
Edit: limit on urls for new users on Stack Overflow mean I had to cut out some of less essential links - google away.
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