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    Default weird google chrome issue

    Sorry, I know this is not the tech support forum but my name says "veteran" and hell if I'm not going to take advantage of that from time to time.

    Today I turned my laptop off for a couple of hours. After I turned it back on, my google chrome taskbar shortcut doesn't work, it says the program doesn't exist. I go to the directory that the shortcut leads to, and sure enough there's no chrome.exe, but there IS a "new_chrome.exe." I double clicked this file (like a dumbass) and it appears to be a fully functioning google chrome browser. Is my computer teeming with viruses right now?

    P.S.: Operating system is windows 8 64 bit.
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    I've been googling around a little bit.

    It seems like this is something Chrome does from time to time, and there isnt some virus issue.

    The answer seems to be to just rename new_chrome.exe back to chrome.exe

    http://vimalsuresh.com/tag/chrome-ex...ew_chrome-exe/
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    Thanks, after a bit the new_chrome.exe was having issues. I just decided this was a great excuse to switch to firefox *shrug*.
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    I love using Google Chrome to cast videos from my laptop to my Chromecast device attached to the TV.
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