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1 minute ago, Bhav said:

Google chrome just installed itself for the thousandth time.

 

This is why I will never use chrome on my PC, I keep getting it more than viruses.

Chrome for desktop safari for mobile. 

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Just now, NunoLava1998 said:

Probably a virus. Chrome doesn't do that.

Thats what you think but it does. Its automatically installed with just about every needed utility or update to windows. Ive complained to them many times.

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Just now, themctipers said:

Chrome for desktop safari for mobile. 

No. Opera for desktop. At least it doesnt install like a virus all the time.

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1 minute ago, Bhav said:

No. Opera for desktop. At least it doesnt install like a virus all the time.

For you 

isn't opera chrome but changed a bit?

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13 minutes ago, themctipers said:

Chrome for desktop safari for mobile. 

 

9 minutes ago, themctipers said:

For you 

isn't opera chrome but changed a bit?

No theres a huge difference.

 

Opera isnt a self installing virus.

 

And youre not going to notice how bad and infective a virus google chrome is while you actually have it installed, because that's the only way to get it to not install itself.

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8 minutes ago, Bhav said:

 

No theres a huge difference.

 

Opera isnt a self installing virus.

 

And youre not going to notice how bad and infective a virus google chrome is while you actually have it installed, because that's the only way to get it to not install itself.

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138 is a good number.

 

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1 minute ago, themctipers said:
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Only for you..

 

Nope:

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+to+stop+chrome+installing+itself&oq=how+to+stop+chrome+installing+itself&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.14586j0j4&client=tablet-android-nvidia&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

 

Its an issue that even both microsoft and firefox have complained to google about, but they still wont do anything about it.

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Just now, Bhav said:

Nope:

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+to+stop+chrome+installing+itself&oq=how+to+stop+chrome+installing+itself&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.14586j0j4&client=tablet-android-nvidia&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

 

Its an issue that even both microsoft and firefox have complained to google about, but they still wont do anything about it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ never happened to me.

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@Bhav Have been using chrome ever since I owned a PC, and I install it on literally everything and recommend it to everybody that asks me about it.

Never had any issues with it, and I've never heard of anyone having that problem.

 

Are you sure you don't have some sort of malware on your PC that keeps doing this?

Highly possible that the other people had the same malware, considering only a very small percentage of people seem to have this issue.

 

Also, when using Google Advanced Search and searching for the past year, I can't find a single hit on your problem.

 

 

I think the problem is isolated to you and a few other people, noone else seems to have these issues.

Google Chrome just doesn't automatically install itself if your computer is functioning properly.

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At the end he tries to explain what was going on but he thinks Win+R (run) is command line and that you can remote into a computer with one command

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6 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

At the end he tries to explain what was going on but he thinks Win+R (run) is command line and that you can remote into a computer with one command

Lol yeah he was just trying to open event viewer. My guess is the scammer would do that show him all the errors going on and then tell him he needs to download something else (which is malware) to fix this. It would've been totally safe to type in eventvwr.

 

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2 hours ago, Bhav said:

Nope:

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+to+stop+chrome+installing+itself&oq=how+to+stop+chrome+installing+itself&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.14586j0j4&client=tablet-android-nvidia&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

 

Its an issue that even both microsoft and firefox have complained to google about, but they still wont do anything about it.

had that problem before, it turns out it's Windows' fault, it somehow shits itself when uninstalling Google Update ... so since Google Update isn't uninstalled it will reinstall Chrome. I've only encountered that problem with corrupted registry or with advance registry modifications (like moving the "users" folder from the default location, which was my problem, I had a small SSD so I had moved the program file and users folder to a regular HDD and Windows hated that!).

 

 

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3 hours ago, Bhav said:

Thats what you think but it does. Its automatically installed with just about every needed utility or update to windows. Ive complained to them many times.

Sounds like a windows error, I have had this issue with older nvidia drivers that windows will not stop trying to install on my computer.

 

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Read this article 

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pc-gaming-is-still-way-too-hard

Painful and funny at the same time... 

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27 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Read this article 

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pc-gaming-is-still-way-too-hard

Painful and funny at the same time... 

already posted lol

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29 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Read this article 

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pc-gaming-is-still-way-too-hard

Painful and funny at the same time... 

try this. a guy analysed it

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/231624-is-it-too-hard-to-build-a-gaming-pc

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3 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

already posted lol

Lol, didn't notice that ? ? 

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4 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

try this. a guy analysed it

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/231624-is-it-too-hard-to-build-a-gaming-pc

Gamer's Nexus debunked that 

 

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Yea it generally only takes me <30 mins for a full build now, but thats once you know what your doing.

 

A first build can be very hard, but I used a forum when I did my first self build and got all the help I needed. Took maybe a couple of hours at most the first time, not 5 hours!

 

And thats back when cases were badly designed on the insides and had loads more sharp corners and finger traps, and none of the slide out trays or easy install bays we get today.

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1 minute ago, Bhav said:

Yea it generally only takes me <30 mins for a full build now, but thats once you know what your doing.

 

A first build can be very hard, but I used a forum when I did my first self build and got all the help I needed. Took maybe a couple of hours at most the first time, not 5 hours!

 

And thats back when cases were badly designed on the insides and had loads more sharp corners and finger traps, and none of the slide out trays or easy install bays we get today.

Took me 30 minutes to put on my 212x. xD 

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138 is a good number.

 

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(Keep in mind this was in 2014) So this girl in one of my classes at school told me she wanted to build her own computer and asked me for help. I asked her what exactly she wanted to do on it, She replied by saying that she wanted a pc that is good for gaming. There was nothing going on in class so I proceeded to jump on amazon and long story short I ended up with 4 Titan Xs in sli, 128gb of corsair DDR4 2133mhz ram, an intel Core i7 5960x, an asus X99 motherboard, a pclabs case, and an corsair H100i. When I told her that I had it all picked out. She came over and saw that the amazon cart was litterally costing around $7000 she said that she would think about it. The next day she showed up with a 2013 Razer Blade.

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3 minutes ago, dobo2001 said:

"4 Titan Xs in sli, 128gb of corsair DDR4 2133mhz ram, an intel Core i7 5960x, an asus X99 motherboard, a pclabs case, and an corsair H100i. "

 

Sounds like an LTT build.

It does

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