

Having recently switched my channel from Stable to Beta, I loaded Settings > About to check if there was a more current update available. Whatever the causes, the end result is that the background service that checks for and fetches updates goes a bit bananas.

Google Chrome throws an ‘Error 7’ when the built-in auto-update mechanism, tasked with quietly updating you to the latest and greatest release in the background, fails. The causes for it failing are both too varied and too context dependent to be reproducible or pinned down to any one specific issue. But Windows being Windows means it wasn’t long before I was face to face with the most common cause of complaint from Chrome for Windows users: the infamous Error 7. Being a recent returnee to the world of Microsoft Windows I’ve now started to become aware of niggling issues that often blight Chrome users of the platform.Ĭoming across such issues is, I’m pleased to say, increasingly rare.
