Ten months ago, I wrote1 System Restore says that it has restored the system to how it was 10 days ago. After rebooting and holding my breath, the computer restarted but it's still at 100% disk usage. After about an hour and a half the computer calmed down and it became possible to do some work with it. But Anydesk and Chrome seem to be damaged, so I'm having to finish this blog on my work computer, hence no 'today in history' for the time being ... maybe I'll add it later, assuming that I can get Chrome to work.
I downloaded the Chrome setup program from the Internet and vainly tried to install the browser; each time that I tried, the program simply gave up during the initial installation phase. So after several barren attempts at installing - and also seeking advice on a professional forum where I received no help - I gave up on Chrome and went back to using the Firefox browser that used to be my default browser, several years ago.
The only action that I couldn't do in Firefox that I could in Chrome was access any Priority Web installation (PWI). This wasn't that much of a problem, and a few months ago I realised that I could use yet another browser, Edge, for accessing a PWI.
So what's changed? My company now has its own PWI, and we even have a user that uses it exclusively. There have been a few times that I have wanted to access this PWI but have never succeeded, even though others have. As it seems that today someone from Priority technical support wants to access our Priority via the PWI, it became important that I have access to it. So I got in touch with our technical support and one of the first things that the technician did was to rename the directory c:\program files (x86)\ google to c:\program files (x86)\ google.old. He then proceeded to install Chrome!
It's a shame that I didn't know about this hack nine months ago. Installing Chrome went without problem, but it took the technician about half an hour to figure out how to access our PWI (VPN and firewall problems). Now I'm set up. There were some bookmarks to add to Chrome (I couldn't seem to export them from Firefox then import them into Chrome) and several to delete.
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