3.15. The "Help" menu
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## 3.15. The "Help" menu

The Wireshark Help menu contains the fields shown in Table 3.12, “Help menu items”.

Figure 3.13. The "Help" Menu

Table 3.12. Help menu items

Menu Item | Accelerator | Description
--- | --- | ---
Contents | F1 | This menu item brings up a basic help system.
Manual Pages > ... |  | This menu item starts a Web browser showing one of the locally installed html manual pages.
------ |  |
Website |  | This menu item starts a Web browser showing the webpage from: http://www.wireshark.org.
FAQ's |  | This menu item starts a Web browser showing various FAQ's.
Downloads |  | This menu item starts a Web browser showing the downloads from: http://www.wireshark.org.
------ |  |
Wiki |  | This menu item starts a Web browser showing the front page from: http://wiki.wireshark.org.
Sample Captures |  | This menu item starts a Web browser showing the sample captures from: http://wiki.wireshark.org.
------ |  |
About Wireshark |  | This menu item brings up an information window that provides various detailed information items on Wireshark, such as how it's build, the plugins loaded, the used folders, ...

| Note!
Calling a Web browser might be unsupported in your version of Wireshark. If this is the case, the corresponding menu items will be hidden.

| Note!
If calling a Web browser fails on your machine, maybe because just nothing happens or the browser is started but no page is shown, have a look at the web browser setting in the preferences dialog.

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