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Find your way to the user settings. 

              C:\Documents and Settings\Andy\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome

Right-click to Properties on "User Data" and go to the Security/Advanced tab. Click the box Replace permission entries…

Worked like a charm for me.

slhck

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answered Oct 11 '12 at 14:32

I got it fixed by doing the following in Win 7:

  • Install Chrome.
  • After setup it will display the usual 'your preferences cannot be read'.
  • Click OK the these errors.
  • After this, Chrome will open a browser window. Go with this window and enter Settings.
  • At the users section, click on 'Delete this user', accept all prompts.
  • Chrome will display its default page when done.

Close and reopen Chrome, the problem is now gone!

slhck

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answered Apr 22 '13 at 14:58

Perhaps your preferences got corrupted. Try this:

Create a new browser user profile

Backup and rename your Google\Chrome\User Data directory. This should set up a new profile for you and fix your issue.

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answered May 3 '12 at 16:39

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  • Good suggestion, but this did not in fact fix the problem. A new "Default" folder got created, but I still get the popup.

    May 3 '12 at 17:38

  • interesting, this is on windows7 i assume? (judging from your question history).. Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling? some of the binaries could have also been corrupted

    May 3 '12 at 17:45

  • This is a Windows XP machine, actually. I was hoping that this could be fixed without a complete uninstall and reinstall, but if I get no other suggestions that's what I'll try.

    May 3 '12 at 17:58

  • Slightly chrome unrelated, but are you seeing any other issues? did XP ask you to run checkdisk on bootup?

    May 3 '12 at 18:00

  • No unusual problems with anything else other than Chrome.

    May 3 '12 at 20:42

Finally resolved this issue. Uninstalling Chrome and reinstalling it did not fix the problem, as I would expect; I got the same exact window after the reinstall.

I ran chkdsk once, but that didn't fix the problem either. However, the second time I ran chkdsk, the problem did go away. So running chkdsk seems to be the solution, but I have no idea why it took two attempts.

answered May 17 '12 at 13:48

I just resolved this issue by doing the follwing:

  • I tried disk check and it did not resolve.
  • I then did a disk defragmentation on the drive my chrome is installed on and afterwards it worked like a charm, hope this helps

note: i did not need to reinstall chrome to do this, i just closed chrome and started the disk check and disk defrag

answered Jun 23 '13 at 19:02

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  • This really should have been a comment for seansand as a follow up step.

    Jun 23 '13 at 19:26

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