How to install Google Chrome for all users in Windows

If you noticed, the Google Chrome installer doesn't ask to run as administrator (read: no UAC prompt) while installing itself. This is because it doesn't write it's files to the system directories like most other applications do (Firefox, for example). However, this also means that only the user that installs Chrome can use it. For every other user, he/she will have to run the installer and have it download the full setup and then install it.

There are some ways to get an already installed copy of Chrome to work with multiple users. One such way was posted on Neowin.net:

1. Copy %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application to another folder accessible to all users, eg: C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application
2. Add the following registry value for each user that will be using Google Chrome:
   [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\Clients\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}]
   "pv"="0.2.149.27". User preferences will continue to be per-user in %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data

There is an easier way:



Simply download the full offline installer version of Google Chrome from here: http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/160.0/chrome_installer.exe (around 8.5mb), login to each user's account and run the installer. Voila!

Hey, it's better than logging into each user's account and messing with the AppData folders and the registry!

And there's an EVEN EASIER way to install Google Chrome on all Windows accounts at once if you're an administrator on the system:

1. Visit the Google Pack website.
2. Customize the package by removing all items other than Google Chrome and download it
3. Run that as administrator (default behaviour) and your system will have Chrome for everyone

That's it!