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Something I noticed the other week - Chrome on Windows will scan my desktop on startup (all the icons go back their generic version, and then return). Why woul
by chiph 12y ago
Something I noticed the other week - Chrome on Windows will scan my desktop on startup (all the icons go back their generic version, and then return). Why would they do that? My desktop isn't where the cache is.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoI believe it is hooking the explorer launch process not 'scanning' the desktop. But I may be wrong. Like the author I got tired of all the issues I was having (exactly two extensions, OnePassword and Evernote) and switched to Firefox.
- justcommenting 12y agoMy experience with relatives' computers has been that trying to completely remove Chrome from Windows is a lot like trying to remove a rootkit, specifically one that phones home a lot. If any other company did those sorts of things in persisting pieces of their software all over the OS without easy removal for non-technical users, people would be calling it malware or spyware.
- fizzbatter 12y agoInteresting, what specifically are you having trouble with? I would think it just uninstalls. Are you claiming otherwise? I'd love to try and reproduce what your claims are (fact check).
- zobzu 12y agoA bunch of adware reinstall it actually, because they get money from Google for that. On a clean system its pretty simple to uninstall.
- asdrty 12y agothe main reason why I never switched to Chrome is the Google process that is always running whether you are currently using Chrome or not.. but I don't think I had any issues uninstalling it a few years ago
- scottmcf 12y agoIs THAT what's doing that? That is extremely annoying, is it possible to safely use a flag to disable this?
- abandonliberty 12y agoQuitting chrome is also extremely difficult. I end up using tskill to kill all the random background processes.