straycat19 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 How to Fix: Chrome Won't Update, Won't Uninstall 1.First, you will need to export your bookmarks if you intend to keep them, otherwise you will lose them. To do so: Open Chrome if it is not already. At the top right, click the three vertical dots to bring up the dialogue menu and select Bookmarks -> Bookmark Manager. Inside the Bookmark Manager window, you will see "Folders" on the left, and then "Organize" on the right. LEFT CLICK the "Organize" heading to bring up another dialogue menu and select "Export bookmarks to HTML file". Save the bookmarks as a HTML file to your desktop and call it "Google Bookmarks" or such. 2.Now, close the Chrome browser if it is loaded. If you are using Chrome to read this article, make note of the URL (copy it to notepad, for example), close Chrome, then launch another web browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Edge and paste the URL into the address bar in order to come back to this page. 3.Next, open up an administrative command prompt. From here I'll provide commands to delete the Google Chrome Windows Registry keys so you won't have to use the Windows Registry to achieve the same result. I've also programmed it so that it will make a backup of the Chrome user directory and save it to c:\temp\google\userdata. Once you execute these commands, your bookmarks will be gone - so if you didn't back them up yet (following Step #1 above), please do so now! To launch the administrative command prompt, click Start, then type in "cmd" (no quotes); wait for "CMD.EXE" or "Command Prompt" to appear in the list, then right click it and select "Run as Administrator". 4.Next, highlight the text below using your mouse: reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Google Chrome" /f reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Google Chrome" /f mkdir c:\temp\google\userdata > nul 2> nul move "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\user data" c:\temp\google\userdata rmdir /q /s "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome" > nul 2> nul rmdir /q /s "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome" > nul 2> nul rmdir /q /s "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\CrashReports" > nul 2> nul rmdir /q /s "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update" > nul 2> nul rmdir /q /s "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome" > nul 2> nul rmdir /q /s "C:\Program Files\Google\CrashReports" > nul 2> nul rmdir /q /s "C:\Program Files\Google\Update" > nul 2> nul echo this is a dummy line 5.Right click over top of the highlighted text above, then select "Copy" from the dialogue menu. Next, go to the administrative command prompt you opened in Step #3, then right click in the middle of the window and select "Paste" from the dialogue menu. The text you copied in Step #4 should now be output onto the command line, and Google Chrome should now be removed from your registry, program files directory, and the user data move to c:\temp\google\userdata. You can delete the userdata folder in c:\temp\google if you want, or you can keep it in case there is something inside you might need. 6.Next, download the Chrome Cleanup Tool for good measure in order to clean up any leftovers. 7.Following that, download the Google Chrome install utility and begin installing Google Chrome. 8.After Chrome is reinstalled, you will want to re-import your bookmarks. Follow Step #1 again but instead of "Exporting bookmarks to HTML file" you will want to "Import bookmarks from HTML file", then navigate to your desktop (or wherever you saved the bookmarks) and select the bookmark backup. Chrome will re-import your bookmarks and you should be good to go. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Can You give warranty, that everything recommended is safe and works? Have it all was tested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknownasphyxiated Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 safer method for chrome won't update 1.download chrome offline installer 2.install chrome done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greybigtop Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Kalju, always write a WindowsImageBackup or similar to an external disk before any major attempts to fix problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty6100 Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 4 hours ago, unknownasphyxiated said: safer method for chrome won't update 1.download chrome offline installer 2.install chrome done Exactly what I did a few days ago. Simple google search came up with this fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 6 hours ago, greybigtop said: Kalju, always write a WindowsImageBackup or similar to an external disk before any major attempts to fix problems. You're very resourceful. I not able to think of such things themselves never. Simply awesome recommendation. I have always liked such a black humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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