Error clicking hyperlink to local file

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When clicking a hyperlink to a local file in Word or Excel in Office 2010 an error box pops up:
“This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.”
I’m running Windows 7 Ultimate X64.

I have tried all the published solutions I could find to this problem that mainly entail HTML hyperlinks and IE not being the default browser, but as expected it did not solve this problem.

I am not quite certain about it, but I think it used to work until a recent Windows update.

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Have you tried This operation has been cancelled… at slipstick.com?

Joe

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Unfortunately, yes. That is what I refer to as the “HTML hyperlinks and IE not being the default browser” solutions in my message.

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Did you check the registry keys mentioned?

Did you follow any of the links at the bottom of the article?

Joe

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Yes, I have done all of that. My specific problem is with links to local files (e.g. another spreadsheet or Word file) although web URLs give the same problem.

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If you have uninstalled Chrome, see This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator..

Joe

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I never had Google Chrome installed; this is a fairly new computer.
So I have just downloaded and installed Google Chrome and it fixed the problem!
Closed Chrome and made IE the default browser. Still fixed.
Well, well; you need Google Chrome to fix an Office 2010 problem. I would like to ge a technical explanation for this. Guess I should not uninstall Chrome now…

Thanks for the link!

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