When attempting to access help in the MS Express editions, I ran into the following nugget. Help would come up. I could select “Content”, “How do I?”, “Index”, etc. When I attempted to select a topic such as “operator” using Index, I would get a nasty crash of the help app. Clicking on “How do I?” under the help menu popped a message box alerting me that this type of error can occur when memory is corrupt... I thought to myself in my best Bill Shatner voice... “Is my memory bad? Could...my...memory...be bad?” Of course not... after playing with Task Manager for a bit... I started exploring my Express directories.... As luck would have it, I found the following path....
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Microsoft MSDN 2005 Express Edition - ENU\
with a little “install.exe” nugget waiting for me... after starting and choosing repair (something had to go wrong because help used to work... and it gave me only two choices 1. Repair and 2. Remove.) After a couple minutes updating... ta-flippin-da... it worked!!!