Do you have an old computer that can barely keep up with Windows? If you o, you can breathe a new life into it if you install Chrome OS. Being based around and on just the Chrome browser, it is light-weight compared to Windows. You won’t be able to do everything that you could on a Windows machine but at least your computer can do most other things. You can still watch videos, play music, browse the web, edit pictures, and game a bit. Just don’t expect any AAA titles to run on your machine. Now, we know Google does not release an official Chrome OS build for other devices. That means anyone interested will have to rely on unofficial Chromium OS builds, also not by Google. One of the best ways to install Chrome OS or Chromium OS on a laptop is Cloudready.

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Most programs will allow a Custom install which can point to a different partition or drive. I use it frequently to custom install larger programs and put downloads on a different partition, have a 1TB drive partitioned as 150GB for C: and 780GB as D: for other things, named the partition as Data but could be whatever up to 11 or 13 characters. After a minute or so you should see the Google Chrome Desktop Shortcut appear. You will also find entries in the Start Menu, Installation Directory, and Programs and Features in the Control Panel. The information above provides a quick overview of the software title, vendor, silent install, and silent uninstall switches. Installing Chrome OS on a computer hard drive is a simple process, and here is how it can be done: ■Turn on your computer. ■Insert the Chrome OS Live DVD in the DVD driver of your computer.

1. Try out brand new Chrome Browser features in a pre-release build. Choose this option if you want to install the beta version of Chrome Browser to test its functionality and performance in your environment. Get the 64-bit and 32-bit beta bundles.
2. Once downloaded, right-click on the installer package and choose Install as admin. The process should install the browser without any issues. However, if the solution does not work, try downloading the offline installer for Google Chrome to a local drive. Choose to Restart the system in Safe Mode. Locate the Google Chrome installer file.

Cloudready is basically Chromium OS with a few additional management features and mainstream hardware support. Neverware sells Cloudready to businesses and schools that want to run Chrome OS on existing hardware. For home users, Cloudready is completely free. For me, something being free is reason enough to get it but here’s why you should consider it too. Older PCs, especially those from the time of Windows XP can get a new life with a light-weight browser-based OS such as Chromium OS. Instead of running a full-on operating system like Windows, the old hardware only has to run a browser.

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Creating the installer used to be a simple process as it was. Neverware though has now made it as simple as it possibly could be. All you have to do is head over to the official website and navigate to the Cloudready Home Edition page. Scroll down and click on DOWNLOAD USB MAKER. Once downloaded, insert your USB drive and run the USB maker. Keep in mind that the USB maker will first download the entire OS and then write it to the USB disk. You can also refer to my dedicated guide on running Chrome OS from a USB drive.

1. As will be mentioned on the first page of the USB maker, you will need at least an 8GB or 16GB USB drive to install Cloudready on it. Insert the disk and click Next.
2. Select the CPU architecture of your PC. If you really have a PC that came with Windows XP, chances are it is based on the 32-bit architecture. Even if you install a 32-bit version on 64-bit hardware, technically it should work. The only problem would be that your system won’t be able to use more than 4GB of RAM.
   
3. Click Next when you’ve selected the right architecture and then click Next again on the next page. If you haven’t inserted a USB drive yet you won’t be able to click Next here.
4. Select your USB drive and click Next again. The installer will now start downloading Cloudready. Immediately after the download is complete, it will start to install it on your drive.
5. This process can take a while even if you have relatively good internet speeds.

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Now that you have a bootable Chrome OS USB drive, shut down your PC, insert the USB drive and boot your PC with the USB drive. Make sure you have enabled the necessary requirements in the BIOS to be able to boot from a USB. If you are able to boot from the USB drive, you will see a bright white screen with the Cloudready logo. After this, you will be asked to log in with your Google ID. You can log in and try out Cloudready or Chromium OS first before installing it. In my experience though, logging in seems to do something, that I can’t exactly point out. The end result for me has always been that the installation gets stuck.

1. Regardless of your choice about logging in, click on the bottom right corner of the Shelf (taskbar on Chrome OS) and select Install Cloudready…
2. On the Window that opens up, select INSTALL CLOUD READY again, and then ERASE HARD DISK AND INSTALL CLOUDREADY. Needless to say, this will erase your entire hard disk and install CloudReady/Chromium OS + benefits on your PC.
3. This process is really long and all you’ll see is an animation that does not give you any idea whether things are moving forward. It can be frustrating to wait so you should probably go out for a walk or something.

When it is complete though, you can reboot your system and pull out the USB Drive. You should see the Cloudready logo on a bright white background when your computer boots up. Now that you have installed Chrome OS on your old laptop or computer, you should also try these must-have apps for Chrome OS.

Read Next: How to Create a Bootable USB on Chromebooks

This page documents how to start using ChromeDriver for testing your website on desktop (Windows/Mac/Linux).

You can also read Getting Started with Android or Getting Started with ChromeOS

Setup

ChromeDriver is a separate executable that Selenium WebDriver uses to control Chrome. It is maintained by the Chromium team with help from WebDriver contributors. If you are unfamiliar with Selenium WebDriver, you should check out the Selenium site.

Follow these steps to setup your tests for running with ChromeDriver:

• Ensure Chromium/Google Chrome is installed in a recognized location

ChromeDriver expects you to have Chrome installed in the default location for your platform. You can also force ChromeDriver to use a custom location by setting a special capability.

• Download the ChromeDriver binary for your platform under the downloads section of this site

• Help WebDriver find the downloaded ChromeDriver executable

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Any of these steps should do the trick:

1. include the ChromeDriver location in your PATH environment variable
2. (Java only) specify its location via the webdriver.chrome.driver system property (see sample below)
3. (Python only) include the path to ChromeDriver when instantiating webdriver.Chrome (see sample below)

Sample test

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Controlling ChromeDriver's lifetime

The ChromeDriver class starts the ChromeDriver server process at creation and terminates it when quit is called. This can waste a significant amount of time for large test suites where a ChromeDriver instance is created per test. There are two options to remedy this:

1. Use the ChromeDriverService. This is available for most languages and allows you to start/stop the ChromeDriver server yourself. See here for a Java example (with JUnit 4):

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2. Start the ChromeDriver server separately before running your tests, and connect to it using the Remote WebDriver.

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