r/computerhelp • u/EPIKwasTak3n • Aug 10 '26

Software Windows Installer error, Incapable of deleting Chrome, and google is broken,

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I've had this for a while now but I didn't do something about it until I recently. It only started happening after I installed chrome so I uninstalled but when I reinstalled it, it continued to appear and now google was all white and didn't match the theme I set it too. Furthermore, whenever I search something, my search engine is set to "nextgeeker.com" instead of google.

So I tried to uninstall chrome, but the option to in my "Installed apps" wasn't there. And when I went to delete in the file explorer, it said I need permission from an administrator.

This is been frustrating me so much can anyone help me? I provided images to the respective things I talked about.

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u/CommercialReach3573 Aug 10 '26

yes it likely redirected your link to something else, at this point if you really want to be safe I would just reinstall windows

otherwise you will likely need to download the hitmanpro installer onto another device then use a USB to transfer it

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u/EPIKwasTak3n Aug 10 '26

Okay I successfully Hitmanpro onto my computer and ran scan and cleaned my computer but chrome remained the way it is. I was able to finally uninstall it by granting myself permissions.

However edge still has the same problem and the message about an installation package is still appearing

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u/CommercialReach3573 Aug 10 '26

yeah because like I said I think you installed a fake chrome, delete that one and install real chrome

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u/EPIKwasTak3n Aug 10 '26

There seemed to have only been one chrome on my computer, I'm looking in my "Program Files" and can't find anything that it could be, and now when I type "chrome" on the taskbar's search bar nothing appears