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Chrome is a web browser from Google.
Watch the [http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/ Google Chrome Releases] blog for info about new versions.
== System wide Installation Download ==
Chrome shows an odd product version in Uninstall Programs (64.228.75 for this version), so the package definition checks only that it is present and then checks the actual version against chrome.exe.
Chrome can be updated while it's running, but the changes won't happen until the running process is closed.
Note that Windows Server 2008 R2 has a new feature called Windows Installer RDS Compatibility. This feature is enabled by default when using Remote Desktop Services and will cause some MSI installers to hang. When run through WPKG the install process will appear to never finish. When run with the same parameters from a command-line you'll see a Windows Installer dialog that asks you to wait and a progress bar that repeatedly completes and restarts. To successfully install Chrome on an RDS server you need to [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560667%28WS.10%29.aspx#BKMK_3|create a registry key to disable this feature]: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\TSAppSrv\TSMSI, add a DWORD called Enable set to zero. The keys TSAppSrv and TSMSI probably won't exist and need to be created.
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== Older Versions ==
=== Google Chrome 15 ===
This is a silent installer and uninstaller for Google Chrome. This will install Google Chrome '''only for the user running WPKG'''.
Normally, Google Chrome installs per-user. To install it system-wide into the %PROGRAMFILES% directory, use the chrome_installer.exe installer and the --system-level option. Note that the regular Chrome standalone installer (ChromeStandaloneSetup.exe) does not seem to accept any command-line switches and can't be made to install silently.
Interesting side note: even though you can't make ChromeStandaloneSetup.exe install silently, you can get a version of it that will install system-wide. To get this, download the regular version of ChromeStandaloneSetup.exe. Make a note of the URL of the file (in Firefox, right-click on the hyperlink and select "copy download link"). This URL will include the string 'needadmin%3Dfalse'. Replace 'needadmin%3Dfalse' with 'needadmin%3Dtrue' and download again from this modified URL. This will give you an installer for system-wide installation.
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