3.15. The “Help” Menu
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## 3.15. The “Help” Menu

The Wireshark Help menu contains the fields shown in Table 3.13, “Help menu items”.

Figure 3.13. The “Help” Menu

Table 3.13. Help menu items

Menu Item | Accelerator | Description
--- | --- | ---
User’s Guide | F1 | This menu item brings up the Wireshark User’s Guide you’re reading right now.
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: https://www.wireshark.org/.
FAQs |  | This menu item starts a Web browser showing various FAQs.
Downloads |  | This menu item starts a Web browser showing the downloads from: https://www.wireshark.org/download.html.
Wiki |  | This menu item starts a Web browser showing the front page from: https://wiki.wireshark.org/.
Sample Captures |  | This menu item starts a Web browser showing the sample captures from: https://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures.
Release Notes |  | This menu item starts a Web browser showing the Release Notes of the current version.
About Wireshark |  | This menu item brings up an information window that provides various detailed information items on Wireshark, such as how it’s built, the plugins loaded, the used folders, …​
Check for Updates → …​ |  | This menu item starts the updater utility that checks whether there’s an new version of Wireshark available. This item is only available on Windows and macOS.

| Note
Opening a Web browser might be unsupported in your version of Wireshark. If this is the case the corresponding menu items will be hidden. If calling a Web browser fails on your machine, nothing happens, or the browser starts but no page is shown, have a look at the web browser setting in the preferences dialog.

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