MATLAB: Does opening the help documentation on a Windows 7 machine give an error in MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)

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I am able to start MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a) on my Windows 7 machine if I set the theme to 'Standard'. However, I am not able to open the help documentation. When I try to open it, I get the following error in a pop-up window,
 MATLAB has stopped working.  
 A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.  Windows will  close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
MATLAB then crashes without a stack trace or a crash dump file.

Best Answer

Running MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a) is not supported on Windows 7. However, some users have found it possible to workaround this issue by changing the web renderer with the following command at the MATLAB command prompt:
com.mathworks.mlwidgets.html.HTMLRenderer.setUseWebRenderer(false);
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