Google Chrome constantly crashing on Windows 10

Close Chrome. Navigate to the chrome executable and rename it to Chrome.exe (when viewing the full extension it would be Chrome.exe.exe). Create shortcut to your desktop and try again.
 
So after two days of browsing it hasn't crashed since the last time I posted. It probably would have crashed again by now. I'm going to give it a few more days, but I think removing my extensions and reinstalling helped. I'll start to put my extensions back on until I get issues again over the course of the next week or so. :)
 
I guess I spoke too soon. It still crashes but much less frequently. I'll try what Travis and Okedokey have suggested and post back. Thank you for all of the help so far!
 
Did you pinpoint exactly which extension was causing it? Since it's much less frequent without it, you might be able to figure out what the problem is based off what the extension does.
 
Darren said:
Did you pinpoint exactly which extension was causing it? Since it's much less frequent without it, you might be able to figure out what the problem is based off what the extension does.
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Unfortunately not. I was hoping that Chrome wouldn't crash with no extensions installed and that after a week of no crashing I could begin to install them again and see what would cause it to start crashing again, but it's crashed a few times today already with no extensions installed. It crashed once and then Chrome refused to open again until I rebooted my PC. I have now signed out of Chrome as suggested by Travis - wonder if that will make any difference. Next thing to try is what Okedokey suggested.

It seems to crash when opening new tabs or closing tabs when at least 4 or 5 are already open.

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Edit: I signed out of Chrome and then it just crashed again with only three tabs open! So that didn't sort it. I've now renamed the Chrome executable to chrome.exe and created a shortcut to that on my desktop (as instructed by @Okedokey) which appears to have reset Chrome. Let's see if that makes any difference.
 
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The only reason I said to sign out was because it links EVERYTHING to your account from Chrome browser to Chrome browser so something is tied to your account if you're signed in and it keeps crashing.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
The only reason I said to sign out was because it links EVERYTHING to your account from Chrome browser to Chrome browser so something is tied to your account if you're signed in and it keeps crashing.
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Yeah I thought that might be why. It has crashed once since I signed out but it hasn't since I renamed the Chrome executable and created a shortcut to my desktop - but I only did that about 15 minutes ago. :P

I've never had an issue like this before. I don't even think it's a Windows 10 thing because I looked around online to see if anybody was having issues and didn't really find anything (asides from issues with Build 10041 which was a beta build from March) and Chrome works fine on my ThinkPad which also has Windows 10. Bizarre!
 
Touch wood, it hasn't crashed since I renamed the executable file. Might give it a few more days and then sign into Chrome again and start reinstalling my extensions.
 
Just to update this thread I haven't had any issues since renaming the Chrome executable. I signed back into Chrome a few days ago and it seems to still be fine. I'll start reinstalling my extensions over the next few days and see if any problems are reintroduced.
 
All extensions were reinstalled about a week ago and so far no problems at all. Solution was to rename the Chrome executable to chrome.exe.exe. Thanks @Okedokey!
 
voyagerfan99 said:
I'm really curious to know how that makes any difference.
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Okedokey said:
The issue has to do with DEP that is why changing the extension fixes this. Let me know how you go.
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I must admit when I first saw that he suggested renaming the exe I was skeptical but I did it and it did appear to solve it! Seriously once I did that it kind of reset Chrome and then all issues gone. Weird that doing that would work better than uninstalling with REVO and reinstalling multiple times!!

I've never had any issues like this before.
 
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