What is HelpLess?

HelpLess is a System Extension and Control Panel that helps people with extended keyboards avoid the annoying delay that occurs when the Help key is hit by accident instead of the delete key.

Without HelpLess installed there can be quite a long delay while the current application launches it's help system in response to the "help" key being pressed. For example in the Finder there is a delay while Apple Guide is launched.

With HelpLess installed hitting the "help" key causes nothing more that a simple beep to be played. This alerts the user to their mistake and they can then just carry on typing without waiting for the help system to swing into action. If you want to bring up the help system then you just need to press a modifier key and HelpLess will tell the system that you pressed the help key, thus activating the available help.

Hardman, Peter. (2000). HelpLess. www.redpointsoftware.co.uk/pages/redpoint/helpless.html

Download HelpLess for Mac

Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver