I've noticed this on a few forums but the solution found by others is not working for me.
When chrome is closed a chrome.exe is still running in the task manager. In the following forums they recommend disabling background apps, which I have.
https://portableapps.com/node/32371
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/j9Yb9fG2zpI
The current work around solution I've found is to use a bat to kill the processes:
taskkill /f /im chrome.exe 2>nul
I'd rather figure out why it isn't closing though, otherwise I have to run a task killer every time I've finished using it.
It's not background apps(unchecked), extensions(none installed), cloud printers(none installed), virus software(none installed) or anything else I can see.
Any ideas?
edit-
It's worth noting I've tested this on Windows 7,8 and xp and found the same result.
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When it doesn't close, how long have you been waiting for this last chrome.exe to shut down? Chrome's self-cleanup can take a while, and usually lingers for a little bit after.
Also, do you see a "GoogleChromePortable.exe" in the list as well when it doesn't shut down all the way? If you don't then the portable version isn't causing the problem. The launcher for Google Chrome Portable waits for the application to be done (because it has to move things around).
I hope the answers to these can help troubleshoot a little further.
interesting. GoogleChromePortable.exe is not showing up. So it must be chrome itself. I can leave it running for ages and it's still there. The first time I noticed it I actually had about 16 chrome processes running as I was starting it up regularly to test my web pages.
I've checked this on Windows 7 with nothing else running and chrome.exe *32 will just sit there for ever. I'll leave it running over night and see if it disappears.
If no one else is experiencing this I'll try re-downloading it and see if that fixes the issue.
To Repair It All
Read this about running processes in Chrome. Apparently, this in normal behavior for Chrome.
http://www.howtogeek.com/124218/why-does-chrome-have-so-many-open-proces...
Don't be a pin-head!
Are you running Chrome Portable by running GoogleChromePortable.exe, or are you going into the App folder and running chrome.exe directly. If you're doing the lattter, run GoogleChromePortble.exe which is in the folder where you can see App, Data, and Other folders. If you are doing it properly, a redownload might be in order.
I did a re download. Noticed that my exe, in the top folder, was called chrome.exe and the downloaded one was called GoogleChromePortable.exe
I must have changed it and so when it was starting up and closing it was unable to close itself based on the new name. Now a GoogleChromePortable.exe is running and removes itself after a few seconds.
Thank you for the help. I'll go stand in the corner of shame now.
To Repair It All
I know this thread is old, but I am just putting this out there for anyone who googles in vain like me. I had the same problem with the process for ChromiumPortable not ending when the application GUI was closed.
Other threads suggested starting the app with --disable-plugins or --disable-background-mode neither of which worked for me.
Starting the app with the switch --incognito did work for me. Now the process closes immediately when the GUI is closed.
BATCH FILE RUNNING APP FROM NETWORK DRIVE:
CD /d H:\ChromiumPortable
SET "iniLine1=DisableSplashScreen=true"
SET "iniLine2=AdditionalParameters=--incongnito --user-data-dir=$(mktemp -d) --allow-file-access-from-files --app=%appPath%