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2oldman
Explorer II
Aug 07, 2019

Chrome won't run.. fix

Since the latest W10 upgade, I've been having trouble with Chrome. It fails to run.

Last few mornings I'd click the icon and nothing would happen. Reboot.. no help. So I fired up Bing and reinstalled Chrome. That worked, but it said 'Chrome didn't shut down correctly.' No, that's not true.

Today, same problem. I downloaded it again, told it to Run, but nothing. After some search time I found a help page saying that it may already be running. I ran Task Manager and found 6 instances already running. Killed them all, and everything is fine again. Not sure why it ran in the background.

Not sure if this will keep happening, but I thought I'd pass this along in case anyone else is having issues.
  • Chris_Bryant's avatar
    Chris_Bryant
    Explorer II
    Aug 08, 2019
    On my Linux installs, there’s a setting “keep Chrome running in the background” that you can uncheck.

    I’d switch to Firefox in a heartbeat if it had an iOS version.
  • pianotuna's avatar
    pianotuna
    Nomad III
    Aug 08, 2019
    I dumped mac for windows. But this thread is about chrome which runs on multiple platforms.
  • sch911's avatar
    sch911
    Explorer
    Aug 08, 2019
    wildtoad wrote:
    I’ve dumped Windows and have very few issues.


    I dumped Windows (for Mac) a long time ago, but still use Chrome!
  • Latner's avatar
    Latner
    Nomad
    Aug 07, 2019
    I fixed my chrome issues by dumping it and installing Mozilla Firefox.
  • AsheGuy's avatar
    AsheGuy
    Explorer
    Aug 07, 2019
    2oldman wrote:
    Since the latest W10 upgade, I've been having trouble with Chrome. It fails to run.

    Last few mornings I'd click the icon and nothing would happen. Reboot.. no help. So I fired up Bing and reinstalled Chrome. That worked, but it said 'Chrome didn't shut down correctly.' No, that's not true.

    Today, same problem. I downloaded it again, told it to Run, but nothing. After some search time I found a help page saying that it may already be running. I ran Task Manager and found 6 instances already running. Killed them all, and everything is fine again. Not sure why it ran in the background.

    Not sure if this will keep happening, but I thought I'd pass this along in case anyone else is having issues.
    Chrome runs multiple processes intentionally, it's a feature. Check this article. I get somewhere over 20 processes every time I open Chrome.

    I haven't experienced your problem, but I don't think the problem is related to the multiple Chrome processes. On edit: Well it might be if you have a low RAM PC.

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