Friday, July 4, 2014

Sick of Chrome Text Garble

One of my PCs Chrome would start garbling text after being used for awhile. Shutting down all instances of Chrome and restarting would solve it temporarily. I am trying to clean every speck of Google from the computer and start over.

Logged on to Chrome account to be sure the settings were backed up.
Shut down every instance of chrome in task manager.
Remove all Google stuff through Add Remove Programs.
Win-R and type "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google" then delete the folder
Type the following text into a notepad and save as "remove.reg". Run the reg program to remove all Chrome entries from register.
You could also run reg clean in CCleaner.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; WARNING, this file will remove Google Chrome registry entries
; from your Windows Registry. Consider backing up your registry before
; using this file: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756

; To run this file, save it as 'remove.reg' on your desktop and double-click it.

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ChromeHTML]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\chrome.exe]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\RegisteredApplications]
"Chrome"=-


[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\ChromeHTML]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\chrome.exe]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\RegisteredApplications]
"Chrome"=-


[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Chrome]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\Clients\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\ClientState\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}]


[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\Clients\{00058422-BABE-4310-9B8B-B8DEB5D0B68A}]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\ClientState\{00058422-BABE-4310-9B8B-B8DEB5D0B68A}]


[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Google\Update\ClientStateMedium\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Google\Update\Clients\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Google\Update\ClientState\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}]


[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Google\Update\Clients\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}]

I hate all the memory Chrome eats up but this is the minimum I can get by with for extensions.

Curl, Wget, Winget & Powershell Install or Download Commands

After the mess I made in previous posts this summary might be useful.     Thanks PatchMyPC, the great and powerful program downloader and up...