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Google+ Social Links 2 Facebook YouTube Submit News Alternative Tip Form How To Fix ‘Update Failed (Error 7)' Issue on Chrome Windows Annoying issue is annoying, but here's how to fix it By Joey-Elijah chrome dev channel Sneddon under How To August 8, 2014 Share Share Being a recent returnee
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to the world of Microsoft Windows I've now started to become aware of niggling issues that often blight Chrome users of the platform. Coming across
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such issues is, I'm pleased to say, increasingly rare. But Windows being Windows means it wasn't long before I was face to face with the most common cause of complaint from Chrome for Windows users: the infamous Error 7. Egads! Error 7!
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Google Chrome throws an ‘Error 7' when the built-in auto-update mechanism, tasked with quietly updating you to the latest and greatest release in the background, fails. The causes for it failing are both too varied and too context dependent to be reproducible or pinned down to any one specific issue. Whatever the causes, the end result is that the background service that checks for and fetches updates goes a bit bananas. I encountered the issue chrome update error 3 by chance. Having recently switched my channel from Stable to Beta, I loaded Settings > About to check if there was a more current update available. And there it was; staring back in all its un-insightful glory: Update failed (error: 7) An error occurred while checking for updates: Egads! Installation failed. Please try again. Error code = 0x00000000. While it tells me to ‘try again' that, naturally, fails, throwing the same error again. So how did I go about resolving it? Fixing Chrome Error 7 My first port of call was (naturally) to Google the entire text of the error. Nothing beats a good ol' web search in these situations and Google duly turned up a number of solutions. Now, not all of these were immediately useful, some were obsolete or outdated, and way too many proffered the drastic solution of reinstalling my entire operating system from scratch! Nothing quite so melodramatic is needed to solve the ‘Error 7' issue on Windows. In fact, for some it's as simple as rebooting the computer! Notice I said ‘for some' and not ‘for all'? Yeah, this doesn't always work. If you find yourself in this situation (or, for whatever reason, you don't want to reboot) then the steps listed below solved it
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Choose Which Files Windows Search Indexes on Your PC Subscribe l l FOLLOW US TWITTER GOOGLE+ FACEBOOK GET UPDATES BY EMAIL Enter your email below to get exclusive access to our best articles and tips before everybody else. RSS ALL ARTICLES FEATURES ONLY TRIVIA Search How-To Geek How to Fix (and Adjust) Automatic Updating in Google Chrome By default, Google Chrome automatically updates itself to make sure you're running the safest and best optimized version of Chrome. Sometimes the auto-update process hiccups, however, and you need to manually adjust it. The process is more complicated than it should be, but don't worry: we're here to walk you through it. In case you can't see the picture above, the full text of this error message is "Google Chrome or Google Chrome Frame cannot be updated due to inconsistent Google Update Policy settings. Use the Group Policy Editor to set the update policy override for the Google Chrome Binaries application and try again;" Note: if your Google Chrome is updating just fine, stop reading this article and go check out our SysInternals Pro series instead. Why Do I Want To Do This? There are two pertinent questions to address in this section. Why do you want to mess around with the update function and Why do you even have to in the first place? Although updating any software always runs the risk (however small) of breaking something, web browsers are a tool you want to keep as up-to-the-minute updated as possible so you can minimize the threat of zero-day exploits and security holes. RELATED ARTICLEWhat Are the SysInternals Tools and How Do You Use Them? By default, Google Chrome automatically updates itself (and occasionally reminds you to restart the browser to apply those updates if it has been awhile since you've completely shut the application down). Since 2010, however, Chrome has included more advanced group policy settings intended to help network administrators streamline when/how Google Chrome updates when installed in a Windows enterprise environment. The problem for home users and commercial users without a group policy system in place is that this group policy system sometimes hiccups and turns the automat