At the start of my new job, I thought it was important for me to have a PC as my daily driver rather than a Mac as most tech calls that come in are on a PC, so I went out and bought one. My dear Mom even helped me out with the cost, thanks Mom. And it has been helpful. Also kind of necessary as my Mac has been beyond support for a few OS versions now. Safe surfing, kids! Keep your OS up-to-date.
But tonight, I decided to be a good little tech support tech supporter and run Windows Updates. This was just a casual click. But it kept running and running and running and wouldn’t find any updates. So I restarted.
This f87king computer, a brand new HP laptop, started running a repair. I think it reverted to a previous restore point, FFS. Then I got on and several apps could not run, especially Google Chrome. Bear in mind, I do tech support on the phone 40 hours a week, and this is my day off. MY DAY OFF.
I uninstalled the current version of Chrome. Then I tried to install it again. It would not install. I flushed every cache I could. I restarted. I ran scannow. I turned off the firewall. I do not run a VPN. I checked every gravity-bound thing I could check and it would not install my favorite browser.
Then I saw something on the download site about running an “offline” installation. When I downloaded it, I noticed it was different from the other iterations. It was a 64-bit version, which, duh, was the version I needed. It installed like a charm.
But golly, Windows. WTF?