You may have suffered from such problem all of a sudden: your Google Chrome won't open on Windows 10 after you double-click on its icon. This is a very frustrating thing. However, you can't uninstall it at once, because Chrome won't be reinstalled back to your computer. In such case, we provide some feasible methods for you in the following.

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Method 1: Restarting your computer to repair Google Chrome on Windows 10. Step 1: Restart your computer and make sure all your files have been saved. Step 2: If your Google Chrome launches in this way, press Ctrl + Alt + Del to open Task Manager. Click on Details tab and right click on the process of Google Chrome and select End process tree.

Voor Windows 10/8.1/8/7 32-bits. Voor Windows 10/8.1/8/7 64-bits. Deze computer ontvangt geen Google Chrome-updates meer, omdat Windows XP en Windows Vista niet meer worden ondersteund. To get started creating your Google Chrome desktop icon, click on the Windows 10 start button in the left-hand side corner at the bottom of your screen. That will open up your Windows 10 start menu, which may resemble the start menu in this image here.

Note: If you, unfortunately, uninstall Google, before reinstalling you can refer to how to remove Google Chrome completely.

Methods to Repair Google Chrome not Opening on Windows 10

Method 1: Restarting your computer to repair Google Chrome on Windows 10

Step 1: Restart your computer and make sure all your files have been saved.

Step 2: If your Google Chrome launches in this way, press Ctrl + Alt + Del to open Task Manager. Click on Details tab and right click on the process of Google Chrome and select End process tree. Launch again after that you have exited every instance of Chrome.

Method 2: Uninstall unidentifiable programs to repair Google Chrome

For some malicious programs may give rise to conflicts in Chrome. Go to the Control Panel and select ProgramsPrograms and Features. Choose the unidentifiable programs, right-click on it and select uninstall. If you don't know which one to uninstall, you can also try Chrome Cleanup Tool to clean up automatically.

Method 3: Fix Chrome by adding exclusion from Antivirus or Firewall Settings

Sometimes your computer antivirus or firewall temporarily closed it, so you have to add an exclusion from the software. Check while the firewall is off, your Google Chrome can work normally or not, you can move on in this section.

Step 1: To open Antivirus in Windows 10, you can navigate to SettingsUpdate & securityWindows DefenderOpen Windows Defender Security Center.

Step 2: In the Windows Defender Security Center window, tap on three parallel dashes at the top-right corner. Select 'Virus & threat protection' from the left panel and click on 'Virus & threat protection settings' in the right panel.

Step 3: Scroll down and click Add or remove exclusions under Exclusions. Tap on the plus sign and select Files option, click on Google Chrome to finish.

Step 4: Input 'Control Panel' in the Windows search box at the taskbar and hit Enter. Click the Down arrow behind View by and select 'Small icons' and select Windows Firewall.

Step 5: In the right panel, click on 'Allow an app or feature through Windows Firewall' and tick the box in front of Google Chrome.

Method 4: Changing entry permission to fix Google Chrome

Step 1: Right click on Chrome shortcut from desktop, select 'Open file location'.

Step 2: Right-click on Chrome application, select Send toDesktop to create a new shortcut.

Step 3: Now right click on new Chrome shortcut then choose Properties. In the Google Chrome Properties dialog, go to Security tab and tap on Advanced.

Step 4: When the 'Advanced Security Settings for Google Chrome' window pop up, tap Change button.

Step 5: Type your username in the box under Enter the object name to select, click on Check NamesOK button.

Step 6: While you have done the operation above, it will automatically return to the window in step 4. Here you need to click on Effective Access tab and tap on Select a user.

Step 7: To do the same as step 5, hit the OK button until exit all windows. Thus you have saved all your changed above.

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The remarkable absence of a Google Chrome desktop icon appears to be a common situation among Windows 10 users (and Windows 8 users as well for that matter). If you’re sure you have Chrome on your computer but your Google Chrome icon is missing, you’re not alone. Question is: how do you create one so you can launch Google Chrome from your Windows desktop?

Luckily the answer is easy and in this article I’m going to show you step by step how to create your desktop icon for Google Chrome. While I’m at it I’ll also explain how to add your own Google Chrome icon to your start menu and your taskbar, so you know how to get a Chrome icon there as well should you be interested.

Furthermore, I’ll also be dealing with creating a Chrome desktop shortcut that takes you directly to a specific website or web page when you click it.

Creating Your Google Chrome Desktop Icon

To get started and create your Google Chrome desktop icon you first need locate where the executable file (the actual program) is situated on your computer. If the words “executable file” or “program” sound complicated to you, don’t worry. Admittedly, if you need to navigate with File Explorer through folders named “program files” and “program files (x86)”, it can get a little confusing at times.

But you don't need to work through all that. It's going to get boiled down for you. I'm going to drip-drip-drip the steps in do-able, um, drips.

To get started creating your Google Chrome desktop icon, click on the Windows 10 start button in the left-hand side corner at the bottom of your screen. That will open up your Windows 10 start menu, which may resemble the start menu in this image here.

With this start menu open and before doing or clicking anything else, start typing the word “chrome” (without the quotes). Many people don’t know that they can actually start typing at this point, because there’s no blinking cursor in some kind of input field. With the Windows 10 start menu on your screen like that it doesn’t look like Windows is expecting any kind of keyboard input, but indeed you can start typing to invoke the search function.

After entering the word “chrome”, your Windows search function should kick in and show you its best match for your search command. That should result in the Google Chrome program or app to appear on top of the “best match” results, like illustrated here.

(Note: if Google Chrome does not show up in your search results like that you probably don’t have Chrome installed on your computer, in which case I would recommend you to read my article on how to download and install Google Chrome).

Now, with the Google Chrome app at the top of the search results list in your Windows 10 start menu, right-click the Google Chrome app and select “Open file location” from the menu.

This simple action will open File Explorer directly in the right folder where your Google Chrome shortcut is located so you don’t have to navigate confusing folder structures. Your file explorer window will look similar to the one in the image right below here and you’ll notice that the Google Chrome shortcut is already selected (indicated by the blue selection bar).

Now right-click the Google Chrome item in your file explorer, then click “Send to” and select “Desktop (create shortcut)” to create your Google Chrome desktop icon.

As soon as you’ve finished this step you can take a look at your desktop and verify if your new Chrome icon is there.

(Quick tip: to easily and quickly go to your desktop, simply press and hold the Windows logo key on your keyboard and press the letter d simultaneously. You can also check my Windows 10 desktop article to discover more ways to quickly show your desktop or to create your own “show desktop” icon.)

From now on you’ll be able to launch Chrome with your Google Chrome desktop icon.

Adding A Google Chrome Start Menu Icon

If you like working with the Windows 10 start menu, you may want to add a Google Chrome icon right there on your start menu as well. To do so, you can repeat the same first steps as described above: click your Windows start button in the bottom left corner and type “chrome” (again, without the quotes).

Then, with Google Chrome at the top of the “Best match” list, right-click the Google Chrome app and select “Pin to Start”.

That’s all there is to it to add a Google Chrome icon to your start menu. The next time you click your Windows start button you’ll find the Google Chrome icon there.

Please note: you may have to scroll down in your windows start menu to actually see the Google Chrome icon as Windows tends to add new icons at the bottom of the start menu. You can easily drag and drop this new start menu icon to a higher place in your start menu, but if you’re not sure how to effectively organize your start menu items I invite you to read my Windows 10 start menu article.

Your Google Chrome Taskbar Icon

Now that you have a Google Chrome desktop icon and a start menu icon you may be wondering whether it’s just as easy to create a taskbar icon. To add Google Chrome on your taskbar, you have several options.

The first option is to get started as described in the previous examples above, so click your Windows 10 start button and type “chrome” (without the quotes), which will bring up Google Chrome in the “Best match” list.

Then right-click the Google Chrome app and select “Pin to taskbar”.

A different approach is to start Google Chrome (for instance by double-clicking your Google Chrome desktop icon that you just created) and working with the icon that will then automatically appear on your taskbar.

You can right-click the Google Chrome program icon on your taskbar and select “Pin to taskbar” from the menu in order to, um, pin the icon to your taskbar.

A Desktop Icon To Go Directly To A Specific Web Page

Now if you want to create a Google Chrome desktop icon that immediately takes you to a desired web page you need to take a slightly different approach. Imagine for instance that you like working with Google Drive and you would like to have a Google Chrome desktop icon that immediately takes you to your Google Drive rather than to your Google Chrome start page.

To do so, simply launch Google Chrome and navigate to your Google Drive the way you usually do this and then click on the “restore down” icon in the top right corner of your Chrome window (next to the “x” to close the window).

The restore icon looks like a representation of 2 pages one right behind the other and will display “restore down” if you hover over it with your mouse pointer.

(If your “restore down” icon looks like only a single page and displays “maximize” when you hover over it, it means that your Chrome window is already “restored down”.)

So with your Google Chrome window in “restore down” mode, you can click and drag and side border or corner to resize the window and you can click and drag the title bar to move it around on your screen.

If you manage to position your Chrome window so that next to it you have a view on your desktop background, like in the image below.

Then you can simply drag and drop the item in your Chrome address bar to your desktop and voilà, there is your Google Chrome desktop icon that will take you directly to your Google Drive page when you click it. (Or any other page that you had open at the moment for that matter).

Of course this isn’t limited to the Google Drive example from above, you can also do this with any specific section or category of your favorite shopping website or any other web page.

Also good to know is that you can create as many of these Google Chrome desktop icons as you want, all with their own specific web destination.

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Of course if you’re working with a whole bunch of specific web addresses that you want to “remember” like this, you might be better of creating Google Chrome favorites, which you can read more about by following the link.

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Oh, and you can find other things to do with Chrome in my Google Chrome tutorial articles.

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