Reputation: 5717

Google Chrome Path in Windows 10

Google repeatedly changed the path to the .exe of Chrome. Sometimes it's hidden in %APPDATA%, in Version 35/36 they changed the path back to program files. There are also differencies across the Windows versions.

Where is Google Chrome located in Windows 10?

Upvotes: 42

Answers (7)

Hec

Reputation: 11

I found something in the Registry when I installed Chrome Canary at the same time.

in a batch file, using chrome.exe it always opens Canary...

then I change from: Equipo\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe "C:\Users\heratess\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe"

To: Equipo\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

and it worked for me.

maybe it could help you.

Upvotes: 0

Rohan Ayush

Reputation: 41

The answer I am writing is applicable for any software/application installed on windows.

Windows 10

Click on windows button and search for the application, in this case Chrome. Right click on application name and click on "Open file location".
You will reach at location of the shortcut of that application. Again right click on the application shortcut and then click on "Open file location" and you will get the path from top url/path bar of explorer or you can click on properties to get the path as shown in image.

And you will get your path for desired application from tab shown in image.

PS: Doesn't works for apps installed from windows store.

Upvotes: 2

Apoorv Gunjan Pathak

Reputation: 65

To find the location of Google, type the following command...

chrome://version

And then look for Command Line on the left side of the screen.

Upvotes: 1

Hannes Schneidermayer

Reputation: 5717

Windows 10:

%ProgramFiles%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
%LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

Windows 7:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Application\chrome.exe

Vista:

C:\Users\UserName\AppDataLocal\Google\Chrome

XP:

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

There are also Registry Keys and environment variables to use. Check out this post for universal use for programming.

Upvotes: 30

zumalifeguard

Reputation: 9016

Chrome can be installed in various places on Windows, for a given user or "all users", in which case it's installed in Program Files.

To determine where it is programmatically:

Batch file:

set exe=
FOR /F "tokens=2* skip=2" %%a in ('reg query HKCR\ChromeHTML\shell\open\command /ve') do set exe=%%b
set exe=%exe:"=%
set exe=%exe:~0,-6%

PowerShell:

(gp Registry::HKCR\ChromeHTML\shell\open\command)."(Default)" -match '"(.*?)"' | Out-Null
$exe=$matches[1]

C#:

var exe = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match((string)Microsoft.Win32.Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(@"ChromeHTML\shell\open\command").GetValue(null),
          @"""(.*?)""",
          System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.None)
      .Groups[1].Value;

Python

import winreg
import re
command = winreg.QueryValueEx(winreg.OpenKey(winreg.HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, "ChromeHTML\\shell\open\\command", 0, winreg.KEY_READ), "")[0]
exe=re.search("\"(.*?)\"", command).group(1)

VBA / VBScript

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
cmd = objShell.RegRead("HKCR\ChromeHTML\shell\open\command\")
exe = Mid(cmd, 2, 999)
exe = Left(exe, InStr(exe, Chr(34)) - 1)

Upvotes: 8

Ajana Sathian

Reputation: 1

Right click on the sub process to see the open file location :

Screenshot

Upvotes: 0

Ahmad Hindash

Reputation: 1629

Please see the screenshot which gives you the ability to seek for the current path of google chrome path or any other application Task Manager - Windows 10

Upvotes: 57

Google Chrome Path in Windows 10

Answers (7)

Windows 10:

Windows 7:

Vista:

XP:

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