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Fix ‘Please close all Google Chrome windows and try again’

Last updated on January 12, 2016 By Venkat

When you try to uninstall Google Chrome, you may get a dialog from the browser suggesting you to ‘Please close all Google Chrome windows and try again‘. Let us see how to fix this which after lets you remove Google browser.

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Fixing error ‘Please close all Google Chrome windows and try again’

1. First things first, make sure no background app or pages of Chrome are running, if any, close them and also ensure ‘continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed’ setting under ‘System’ in Settings  doesn’t have a tick, if it has, uncheck it.

2. Now open Task Manager, if you see more than one Chrome process running, right click on a process and select ‘End Process Tree’.

3. If steps 1 or 2 or both don’t help, then follow this one.

Download and install Unlocker in your computer.

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Navigate to ‘ C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome’, right click on ‘User Data’ folder and select ‘Unlocker’, which shows all running Chrome processes, click on ‘Unlock All’ button.

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Now try to uninstall Chrome again, hope this time you may not get the dialog shown above.

Filed Under: Google Chrome, Troubleshooting

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  1. muzaffar says

    June 17, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    i really thank full to giving a usefull information…………………. thanks a lot………..

    • Venkat eswarlu says

      June 17, 2015 at 7:38 pm

      You’re welcome muzaffar.

  2. Audrey says

    August 2, 2015 at 1:53 pm

    Thank you very much. i did it

  3. CJ says

    August 13, 2015 at 6:58 am

    step 1, step 2, and done. THANK YOU!

    • Venkat eswarlu says

      August 13, 2015 at 7:38 am

      You’re welcom CJ.

  4. Pallam says

    March 3, 2016 at 11:40 am

    yup, very useful to me.
    BTW how do i enter proxy username and pass word as the window for the purpose is just appearing and disappearing..
    Plz help

    • Venkat eswarlu says

      March 3, 2016 at 4:23 pm

      Please see if running the Chrome cleanup tool followed by doing reset fixes the issue.
      https://www.google.com/chrome/cleanup-tool/
      If you don’t know, Google has released this tool to remove other programs that causes problem to Chrome.
      More here https://techdows.com/2015/08/chrome-cleanup-tool.html

  5. Prashant says

    February 8, 2017 at 11:43 pm

    Thank you… Useful for me…

  6. Kate says

    March 19, 2019 at 3:48 am

    You are an angel …Thank you for helping me fix this! :-)

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