After you use Internet Explorer 5.5 or 5.5 Service Pack 1 to embed a binary file into a .chm help file and link from a topic page to that file, clicking the link may not open the file. However, if you click the link a second time, the link may work correctly.

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To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Internet Explorer version 5.5. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date      Time       Version         Size       File name     Platform
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   10/22/00  8:16 a.m.  5.50.4210.2600  2,744,080  Mshtml.dll    x86
				

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Internet Explorer version 5.5 Service Pack 2.

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To view this problem, encapsulate a file (such as a .zip, .pdf, .doc or .rtf file) into a .chm file, link to this file, and then click the link to try to view the file.

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