Google Chrome fails to startup

I recently encountered this problem when my Chrome browser failed to start. When I clicked on the icon the I got the hourglass mouse icon for a split second and then ...nothing... absolutely nothing happened.

Then panic struck in, so I frantically uninstalled chrome and downloaded and installed a fresh copy but still nothing happened. I did this is a couple of times but still nothing happened.

After a lot of research (a.k.a googling - using firefox of course) I understood that this was a corrupt file problem in the Documents and Settings directory chrome folder.

So here goes the solution :

• Uninstall Chrome

• Get Ccleaner ( http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner  its free but do make a donation if you can ) download and install it and run it. Clean your computer and the registry properly (do it a couple of times just to be thorough). For future use keep doing this atleast once a week to keep your computer in good shape (nobody likes a slow computer).

• Go to My Computer-> Windows Drive (C: mostly) and Right click on the drive icon and  goto properties->tools->check now,  after clicking on check now tick both the boxes in the window that appears and then click start. Then you may get a message saying that your computer needs to restart blah blah blah, click ok . 

• Now restart your computer. As the windows logo appears your computer will start the checking process, let it happen it wont take more than 30 minutes (if you have a really slow computer).

• Now after your windows starts , install chrome again and VOILA it should run.

Method 2:

If that doesn't work try adding your chrome.exe (mostly in program files) to the exceptions list of your antivirus/firewall .

Probable cause of the problem :

I was switching off my desktop by directly cutting off the power . So remember to properly shutdown your PC before cutting the power.