Allow user-level native messaging hosts (installed without admin permissions)

Enables user-level installation of native messaging hosts.

If you disable this policy, Microsoft Edge will only use native messaging hosts installed on the system level.

By default, if you don't configure this policy, Microsoft Edge will allow usage of user-level native messaging hosts.

Supported on: Microsoft Edge version 77, Windows 7 or later

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
Value Name	NativeMessagingUserLevelHosts
Value Type	REG_DWORD
Enabled Value	1
Disabled Value	0

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Allow user-level native messaging hosts (installed without admin permissions)

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