I am trying to open a local HTML file but I get an error every time that I do. The error message is as follow:

Error: Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permission to access the item

I have checked the properties of the file and I do have access to everything about it and I have tried other HTML files too. These files open perfectly on Microsoft edge and internet explorer, but not with Chrome. I have updated, repaired and reinstalled google chrome but to no avail. I remember a while back I was tinkering with RegEdit so that may be the issue? I am not 100% sure though as I was not editing Google Chrome files.

Thanks.

1 Answer

Easy way:

1. Create a new shortcut for chrome.exe.
2. Right click > Properties
3. Change Target from "c:\path\to\chrome.exe" to "c:\path\to\chrome.exe" --allow-file-access-from-file. Click OK to save.
4. Run chrome using this shortcut
5. Drag & drop html files to open.

Easier way:

• If you have python installed, run cmd, change directory to your folder, run python -m http.server
• Or download Caddy server, run caddy -port 80