Microsoft restricts the use of compiled HTML help files (CHM) such as our help file if it is running over a network or the internet. You have to explicitly tell Windows to allow the use of a particular network folder as a valid help file location before the contents can be read. EViews actually does this for you, but it needs Administrator rights (just one time) to make this change to your registry. Without this change, you'll have to copy the help file to your local machine, and launch it manually whenever you need it (instead of launching it from within EViews). If you'd like to manually make the registry change yourself, google "Viewing CHM Files Across The Network" or "ItssRestrictions" for more details on how to setup your registry properly.
Also, the Excel Add In we provided is just a simple Excel based macro that makes use of our new EViews OLEDB provider. Our OLEDB driver needs to be registered with Windows on your system before the Add In can work properly. Our installer normally does this, but EViews will periodically check to see this driver is registered and if it isn't, it will offer to do it for you. Again it needs Administrator rights to do this registration (just once). Run EViews with administrative rights, then type in the command REGCOMPONENTS in the EViews command window to display the Register Components dialog. Click yes to register everything. To do this yourself, without EViews, look for the file named "EViewsOleDbProvider.dll" in your Eviews folder, then register it using "regsvr32" by running the following DOS command:
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