Originally Posted by
msb0b
If you can afford to clear your profile, go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome and rename the User Data folder to something else. That %LOCALAPPDATA% should expand to C:\Users\cblaisd\AppData\Local. If Chrome starts, you can restore the files and folders to User Data one by one and see what is the culprit.
Originally Posted by
cblaisd
Thank you. This just gets weirder.
Before seeing your post, I ended up uninstalling Chrome, and deleting the directories in AppData and Program Files folder. I then ran CCleaner, MalwareBytes.
I reinstalled Chrome and the same problem happens again.
I now have the computer in-hand; much easier than trying to mess with remotely.
Oddness continues.... Did all the Windows updates that had been overdue (only 43 of them !). Then reinstalled Chrome. No joy. Uninstalled Chrome, ran CCleaner on the registry. Downloaded and installed an older version of Chrome. No joy. Then tried your suggestion again of renaming the User Data folder. Started Chrome again, and
Eureka and violins! It runs. Just like before.
Does Chrome automatically push updates so that you don't have any choice about it? I'm wondering if there is something in the latest pushed build that is hoinky.
Originally Posted by
caGALINDO
Does system restore still exist? (lol) You can try to restore to when it was working.
Try creating a new user in Windows, see if it happens in the new user account.
I also think it must be a Windows update thing.
Last week, the same Chrome-no-run happened to ME all of a sudden from out of nowhere. Argh. I used System Restore to immediately revert to the previous day's Restore Point and that fixed the problem.
Originally Posted by
antichef
You could try "Microsoft Fix It" to uninstall chrome, then do a fresh reinstall.
I'm embarrassed to say I have never heard of "Microsoft Fix It."
Thanks everyone, so very much. I hope my relative's ability to use Chrome successfully continues and that it's NOT a case of something about an automatically pushed update fouling it.