After installing the Google Chrome browser on a freshly built system, I tried to start it and kept on getting the following error: “chrome.exe – Application Error : The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application”. After a bit of research, I found a successful workaround – to turn [...]

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I was recently in a situation where the Internet Explorer proxy settings were enforced via GPO, however I wanted to use seperate proxy settings for my Google Chrome browsing sessions. Google Chrome doesn’t provide an user interface to change or disable proxy server settings, it uses the proxy settings (amongst other settings) from Internet Explorer. [...]

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