gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » installer fails with error 4 http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google Chrome Installer fails with error 4http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/24/google-chrome-installer-fails-with-error-4/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/24/google-chrome-installer-fails-with-error-4/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:54:33 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7831 Recent tries to install the latest official version of the Google Chrome web browser failed during installation with the error message Installer fails with error 4. The error box provided a link (Help me fix this) to the online help page for that error message which simply stated that there was no help at this point in time.

The suspected causes for this were either a previous installation of Google Chrome that interfered with the installation of the new version or the use of programs that would remove information from the web browser that could be used to track the user of the system.

The fix for “Installer fails with error 4″ was related to a previous install of Google Chrome. After deleting the \Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application directory on the test system the Google Chrome installation went through without problems.

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The error is listed as issue 165 on the Google Chromium website. Several users reported that they received this error on a clean install which obviously means that this fix will not help them at all. There is currently no fix available for these users.

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