Hello,
I know Google Chrome requires at least WinXPSP2 to work. In the past, I've gotten around that restriction by running Portable Chrome. However, this time around, starting Portable Chrome does nothing (not even start a process, or give an error message). Has there been an undocumented system requirement increase within the past year or so, or am I doing something else that is causing this behaviour? How can I find out? Thanks in advance.
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Likely, the Chrome installer was checking before and now Chrome itself is either purposely failing to run on SP2 or is using something that is SP3 and higher. Either way, you should upgrade at this point as XP SP2 is about as unsupported as Windows 2000 is. Microsoft fully dropped support for both a while back.
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