Download Google Chrome browser standalone msi.
Either sort by date, or search on the name, to confirm that the file is there. Note sorting C:\Windows\Installer by name doesn’t seem to work as expected. You should also find the new installer in C:\Windows\Installer under the name shown in the new registry key. There should be a new registry key with install details: You should see MsInstaller events 117 in the Application event log indicating that the installation succeeded.
It should now pick up the old installer and do a proper update. Run the new installer that you downloaded in step 1. (Note that just supplying the path to the older MSI when prompted during installation did not work-I had to copy it to C:\Windows\Installer.)ĥ. Copy that installer to C:\Windows\Installer and rename it using the name from the registry, in this example 5c65738b.msi.
Right-click, select Properties, and look at the Digital Signatures tab to confirm that it’s an installer from Google:Ĥ. Sort the installers by date and look for a file of approximately the right size around that date. You might be able to restore it from a backup of C:\Windows\Installer, but I was able to find the older version in the NiniteDowloads cache. You need to get the MSI that was used on InstallDate, here. msi file was missing in C:\Windows\Installer as well as in the temp path from where it was originally installed.ģ. In RegEdit, open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\ and search for Chrome. If you get the message above, continue.Ģ. Download the current stable MSI for Chrome here and try installing. These principles should also apply for other broken MSI installations, but here are Chrome-specific instructions:ġ. This PatchMyPC article has great info on why this happens and how to resolve it. The older version of Google Chrome cannot be removed. This message was logged to the Application Event log: One workstation was missing the MSI for the previous version of Chrome, so Chrome update (through Ninite) was failing.
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