Help manuals do not appear in Windows search

[zooba]

BPO	28251
Nosy	@pfmoore, @tjguk, @ned-deily, @zware, @zooba
PRs	[Do Not Merge] Convert Misc/NEWS so that it is managed by towncrier #552

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GitHub fields:

assignee = 'https://github.com/zooba'
closed_at = <Date 2016-10-03.15:59:55.438>
created_at = <Date 2016-09-22.22:14:32.897>
labels = ['type-feature', '3.7', 'OS-windows']
title = 'Help manuals do not appear in Windows search'
updated_at = <Date 2017-03-31.16:36:24.901>
user = 'https://github.com/zooba'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2017-03-31.16:36:24.901>
actor = 'dstufft'
assignee = 'steve.dower'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2016-10-03.15:59:55.438>
closer = 'steve.dower'
components = ['Windows']
creation = <Date 2016-09-22.22:14:32.897>
creator = 'steve.dower'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 28251
keywords = []
message_count = 3.0
messages = ['277240', '277241', '277242']
nosy_count = 6.0
nosy_names = ['paul.moore', 'tim.golden', 'ned.deily', 'python-dev', 'zach.ware', 'steve.dower']
pr_nums = ['552']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue28251'
versions = ['Python 3.5', 'Python 3.6', 'Python 3.7']

[zooba]

On Windows 10, you can't search in the start menu for the HTML Help manuals.

This annoys me so much I'm going to figure out a way fix it :)

[python-dev]

New changeset 45ba976b7064 by Steve Dower in branch '3.5':
Issue bpo-28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/45ba976b7064

New changeset e703c3a390f7 by Steve Dower in branch '3.6':
Issue bpo-28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e703c3a390f7

New changeset 15f82b64eee0 by Steve Dower in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/15f82b64eee0

[zooba]

Fixed both the installation link and the bad javascript in the chm files. I also changed the changelog link to an internal link for the latest version and external for older versions (otherwise we were going to the web version which has JS that the HTML Help Viewer can't handle).

Open to suggestions for other improvements, but this resolves all the issues I'm currently aware of.