You can use Python regardless of the docs... of course. Not sure what you mean there.
As far as setting an Environment Variable, though: (1) Right-Click My Computer, go to Properties (2) Go to the Advanced tab (3) Click Environment Variables (bottom middle-ish) (4) Under "User Variables" click New, (5) Variable name: PYTHONDOCS Variable value: C:\Python24 Of course, the value needs to be the correct folder that you said you dropped the HTML docs into. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
