Error "Microsoft Office Plugin - The link is being opened by an external application"

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install the plugin "npmsdocs.dll" to the plugins folder of Chrome
2. Restart Chrome (Ensure all instances are closed)
3. Open a Office 2007 file in Chrome
4. The Chrome displays the message "Microsoft Office Plugin - The link is 
being opened by an external application"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The expected output was that the word document was opened in Chrome. 
Instead a message "Microsoft Office Plugin - The link is being opened by an 
external application" was displayed in Chrome

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I am using Windows XP SP2, Office 2007 and Chrome 2.0.160.0



Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 30 Jun 2009 at 1:55

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can you check if winword.exe process is 
running at the time you see the 
message?

Original comment by [email protected] on 30 Jun 2009 at 10:11

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Exactly the same problem for me.
Winword process is NOT running at the time the message can be seen.
It looks like as if Chrome does not like to let MS Office to open the link 
instead of
Chrome itself.

Original comment by [email protected] on 19 Oct 2009 at 12:27

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Aditionally Chrome opens an alert box that says: Access denied 

Original comment by [email protected] on 19 Oct 2009 at 12:30

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I'm still getting this error. Message box appears with "Unknown error 
0x800C0006"

Original comment by [email protected] on 9 May 2010 at 7:30

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I have the same problem and error code "Unknown error 0x800C0006"

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 Jan 2012 at 3:14