I was reinstalling Windows (namely installing Windows 8 instead of Windows 7). But then Chrome suddenly closed. When I started it again, it had that annoying  home page.  I don't know how to get rid of it. I tried removing the argument in Chrome's shortcut and changing Chrome settings (Set pages). Also, it made itself the default search engine and who knows what else. I thought that it must be µTorrent's doing. So I decided to:   Reinstall Windows once again Give Tixity a try. To my surprise, just after installing Windows 8 and running Internet Explorer, I saw that very  page again.   I'm now going to reinstall Windows once again, but move the content of the disk into a folder first, so that Windows doesn't inherit anything, if that's what's happening.  I'm open to your suggestions. I doubt reinstalling windows will do any better. Also, do you know by any chance what it is and where it came from? I saw a  on µTorrent's forum.  UPDATE I reformatted the hard drive, installed Windows and I can't see  anywhere now.
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What should I do if my Windows computer seems to be infected with a virus or malware?  What are the symptoms of an infection? What should I do after noticing an infection? What can I do to get rid of it? how to prevent from infection by malware?   This question comes up frequently, and the suggested solutions are usually the same. This community wiki is an attempt to serve as the definitive, most comprehensive answer possible. Feel free to add your contributions via edits.
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This browser window showing    appears after I installed then uninstalled the Pantheon environment:  Originally this occurred after (and possibly before) ppa-purging the PPA only when not connected to the internet - a window without a title that the window manager would ignore would appear, then dissapear. The grep process in the background was me searching the root of the system for clues to the problem -  I found that some settings in gconf had been left which were causing a additional issue with the elementary theme set as default, which I then apt-get auotremoved)   After apt-get autoremoving the elementary packages it opens properly in a web browser  It seems to appear randomly (in a random web browser - I have Firefox, Chromium and Chrome installed - this started happening before installing Chrome), and after unlocking the screen, connecting to the internet etc. I think the URL it is pointing to is  which then redirects to    I installed it as shown , and then removed the PPAs using ppa-purge, and then used apt-get autoremove on any remaining bits.  I know this a third-party PPA, but I don't think these issues should occur after removing it. It also causes issues with the Unity desktop as shown . This feels uncomfortably like the things you get with adware/freeware/malware on windows..  Using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit    EDIT: By looking at htop I have found that the process is started as root the run as the active user (gamer) using su:           I have not a clue what point this has apart to encourage the rapid removal of everything relevant to elementaryOS...
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I received a question from a co-worker recently about whether a manual delete of all browsing history, cookies, etc. from Google Chrome History can nevertheless be accessed by any software after the fact.  He came to me in confidence, afraid of what website browsing may be discovered by an advanced history search.  Any advice or knowledge on the topic?  Thanks in advance.
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I don’t like the behavior of the new tab page in Google Chrome 29+. How can I restore the old behavior?  The new tab page (if you have Google set as the default search engine) now shows the Google logo (or, apparently, the doodle of the day if there is one), a search box, and a few recently visited websites. It also added an Apps button to my favorites bar, seemingly the only way to access my apps page, which has easy access to things I use regularly (Calendar, Gmail, Docs, G+, Facebook, Feedly, Google News, Netflix, Play Music, Pandora, Drive, Keep, etc.) I don’t like this behavior. I actually don’t mind having the logo of the day and search box, but I want my apps linked to on my new tab page.  Is there any way to get the old behavior back? I checked the settings and it doesn’t seem like it’s possible to set chrome://apps to be the new tab page (which would restore the old behavior) or to configure the new new tab page to display apps instead of recently visited sites.
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I was running NotePad and Chrome when my computer suddenly shuts down.  After reboot, chrome was able to "restore" itself such that I didn't lose any data.  However, how do we "restore" notepad.exe?
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I am using Google Chrome. I re-installed it today as it was crashing when I start it. I guess may be that this was due to any of my Extensions or Google Update. I disabled my extensions but it was still crashing. Now I installed an old version of chrome from . However, Chrome automaticallyuppdates itself (although Windows asks me before installing and I don't grant it permissions, its still annoying to get Google update asking me permission after a couple of minutes.   I saw the question at  however, it doesn't seem to hlp me. i disabled the service and I stopped it as well, but the problem still persists. I also tried to look into the registry according to the following link:  but the "Policies" section of my registry doesn't contain any folder called "Google". I use Windows 7 - 64 bit Home Premium Service pack 1.  Could anybody help? Thanks a ton!
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I am trying to disable Windows 10 start menu search web results on Windows 10 professional v2004 slow ring preview release build 19033.1.  Here is a list of things that do not work for me:  [DISABLE WINDOWS WEB SEARCH ON REGISTRY EDITOR]  I've googled how to get rid of windows 10 search web results and tried the suggested registry editor hacks on:|  Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search    Setting CortanaConsent and BingSearchEnabled to DWORD32  value 0 but they are not working.   [REWRITE ENDPOINTS]   I've even tried to rewrite all bing.com endpoints in windows (WTF most of them are HTTP, not HTTPS! Anyone can sniff those searchs on an unsecured WiFi network!) but they are restored on windows restart.   [REMOVE EDGE AS DEFAULT APP]   I've tried to restrict edge in every way I could and removing it from default apps but the bastard keeps popping up every time I make a typo while trying to search/run something on my local system.   [RESTRICT CORTANA AND EDGE USING FIREWALL RULES]   I've disabled windows firewall rules allowing outbound and inbound connections for Edge and Cortana. Still no effect.   Are there any other more current hacks that would work on this release?
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I posted this question on reddit yesterday and I am grateful that someone replied to me. But I wanted to get a second opinion because I still feel a little anxious. I am not sure if this is the right place to post my question, but here it is anyways:  I am an individual who is very inexperienced with computers. Yesterday I accidentally dragged one of my folders, which contained a lot of personal information, onto my Google Chrome browser (I was on google.com), and it looked liked the directory of my folder was readily available on the browser. My question is: did I just upload my personal information onto the internet?  Thank you for any responses.
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Chrome's default search engine is .  How we can force chrome to use  without https?  I need a solution that allows proxies to rewrite my URLs, but https currently makes this impossible...
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Chrome always quit when I click on the X button on a tab, without asking me anything!  Even when I close Chrome he do not alert me if I am willing to relay close it?   Many times it happened that accidentally I clicked on X button.
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I use the new built-in "Users" feature of Chrome to switch between Home/Work accounts easily. However, Chrome remembers the "last" user profile you had selected when launching new windows. This is a problem if I close down my "Home" profile last, because when I then click the Email shortcut on my taskbar, because it goes to mail.mycompany.com using my Home profile, and I'm not logged in.  I'd like to change the shortcut to the company webmail to pass a switch that tells Chrome to always start as the "Default" user, regardless of the last one used.  Note: I have tried the command-line parameter --user-data-dir=…, and this seems to do something very different, completely isolated from the Users functionality built in to Chrome. It's possible I'm using it wrong, but please test this before assuming it does the same thing and posting an answer ;-)
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How can i prevent Windows explorer from opening my internet browser when I mistype something in the address bar?  For example, I often type Alt+d, cmd to quickly select the address bar and open cmd.exe in the current directory.  However, I often mistype, and hit cdm instead of cmd.  This will open my default browser and search for cdm, and I deeply hate this.  Sure, it only takes a couple seconds to go back, but that doesn't keep me from hating it.  I'm not interested in making links of my commonly mis-typed programs (which I have actually done already), e.g. create a link of cdm.exe that points to cmd.exe.  I just want to turn this feature off, if possible.
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When my computer shuts down due to automatic updates and I restart it all the tabs I had open are restored. But when I do Ctrl + Shift + Q all the tabs are lost.  Is there a way to have my tabs saved when I manually close Google Chrome? Or should I just kill every single instance of it in the Task Manager or something?
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I tried the Chrome development version for a few days, didn't like it because my tabs became broken and wouldn't load properly. I changed back to the live version, but I forgot to uninstall the development version, which gave me 2 chrome icons on my task bar, but they would both load a broken version of Chrome. I then uninstalled Chrome through the control panel and reinstalled the live version, but I now have one of those broken links on my task bar (a blank page with a folded corner) that points to a version of Chrome that's no longer there. Is there a way to remove this icon?
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I feel one of the biggest improvements with Chrome on Windows is moving the tabs all the way to the top to the screen (so the mouse can just go all the way up, then click). I went with the kubuntu because they do not include the normal (pointless) Linux menu bar at the top of the screen. It took me an hour to get chrome on here and now I see there is a Giant pointless title bar across the top. It is a good 5% of the total screen area and it is just the title and close buttons. Is there anyway to have the chrome tabs all the way at the top of the screen like was intended by Google?
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I've just updated to the latest Google Chrome Dev build, and they've changed from the annoying-but-ok new tab page to an ugly and less usable page.  On the old one, nine thumbnails was not enough, and now they've restricted it to eight.  There's an empty "Tips and Suggestions" box which I wouldn't want even if it had stuff in; they've added Recent Downloads - on the rare occasions when I need that, I'll hit Ctrl-J to open the Downloads tab; and the site-specific search box on the right has now gone!  Is there a way to get the old new tab page back, or a plugin to provide a superior one?   Update: I launch Chrome by pressing Win+R and entering "chrome" - I have a shortcut on the Path with a Target of "C:\Documents and Settings\&lt;user&gt;\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --old-new-tab-page and whilst double-clicking this shortcut brings up the previous new tab page, using the keyboard method results in the old one.  How do I get it working via the Run box? (Without using a batch file, which slows things down too much.)  Update 2: GRRR! Now they've gone and stopped the --old-new-tab-page parameter from working at all! I hate this new version of the page that they're forcing upon us - can anyone provide a method to get rid of it and get the decent page back?
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I opened two Google Chrome windows (because I am using multiple Gmails) and when I do the Cmd ⌘ Tab ⇥ shortcut it just shows me other applications that I opened but does not show me the other Chrome windows that are already opened.  How to switch to the other Google Chrome window that I opened using keyboard shortcut?