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Viewing CHM Files Across The Network in Windows 7

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Mar 15, 202631046 views
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When I try to open .chm help from a network shared drive I receive the following error: Navigation to the webpage was canceled. I know about the .reg solution described on KB896054 but it does not work in Windows 7. Any ideas how to make .chm help available from the network drives? Edit: I have the…

Error Output

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions] 
"MaxAllowedZone"=dword:00000001

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I also experienced this problem, on Windows 7, 64-bit. I had to add the UNC path (\\drive\share) to my Trusted Sites zone and set (in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions) MaxAllowedZone to 0x02, not 0x01. I hope that this helps som…

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