This will be an ongoing update until I can permanently resolve the issue
This has been bugging me, every now and then Google Chrome just doesn’t open for me whatsoever. On investigation it seems to be related to bad references to previous application installations. What I suspect is happening, is the program is updating itself correctly when software updates are needed, but after the software is updated. It’s either not updating the local/registry values and pointing to them for the software installation when launching the application or there’s a corrupted entry somewhere locally that cannot be read by the system.
TROUBLESHOOTING
1) I proceeded by opening up the debug log for the application so I knew where to start off with using Notepad++. This is located in the following folder…
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\Debug.log
The first thing I identified was that it was clearly pointing to a previous update or installation as it was in a different folder.
2) The program installs the following on a new installations {folders in bold} and it also renames the old installer to old_chrome.exe
avcodec-54.dll
avformat-54.dll
avutil-51.dll
chrome.dll
chrome_100_percent.pak
chrome_frame_helper.dll
chrome_frame_helper.exe
chrome_launcher.exe
chrome_touch_100_percent.pak
d3dcompiler_43.dll
d3dx9_43.dll
default_apps
delegate_execute.exe
Extensions
icudt.dll
Installer
libegl.dll
libglesv2.dll
Locales
metro_driver.dll
nacl64.exe
nacl_irt_x86_32.nexe
nacl_irt_x86_64.nexe
npchrome_frame.dll
pdf.dll
PepperFlash
ppgooglenaclpluginchrome.dll
resources.pak
secondarytile.png
VisualElements
xinput1_3.dll
