Allow invocation of file selection dialogs
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Category
Google > Google Chrome
Supported on
Microsoft Windows 7 or later

Supported OS tags: Windows7

Setting the policy to Enabled or leaving it unset means Chrome can display, and users can open, file selection dialogs. Setting the policy to Disabled means that whenever users perform actions provoking a file selection dialog, such as importing bookmarks, uploading files, and saving links, a message appears instead. The user is assumed to have clicked Cancel on the file selection dialog.

Internal name
AllowFileSelectionDialogs
Policy ID
1e47bf2775f7
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Path
Software\Policies\Google\Chrome
Value name
AllowFileSelectionDialogs
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKCU
1
HKLM
0
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Both
Path
Software\Policies\Google\Chrome
Value name
AllowFileSelectionDialogs
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

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