Latest Version of Chrome for WinXP without an Installing Error

[jaugu...@verizon.net]

Hi,

Note: I normally use FireFox V37 in my WinXP PCs, but I wanted to install
the latest version of Chrome (32 bit version) for WinXP on one of my laptops.

I downloaded Chrome 49 and 50 for WinXP.

When I tried to install Chrome 50, I got an error (not exact words) "Entry
point for GetThreadID not found in Kernel32.DLL"!!

When I tried to install Chrome 49, I got a different error, "the service
encountered and error......"

Did anyone install a late version of Chrome (32 bit) for WinXP without
getting an error?

Thank You in advance, John

[Paul]

http://johnhaller.com/blog/2016-03-04--google-chrome-50-drops-support-for-windows-xp-vista

Chrome 50 Won't Install on Windows XP and Vista

GetThreadId is a part of the Windows API in Windows Vista
and later, so it can't be found within Windows XP's kernel32.dll

The service one might be the "Updater" ???
If it talked to head office, the interaction probably
would not be all that pretty.

Do you know whether the Chromium developers are still
doing WinXP versions ? There is Chrome, and there is Chromium,
two different things (but similar).

At least it's a popular topic.

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/175404-chrome-49-update/

Paul

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <oa6ldn$anj$1...@dont-email.me>, Paul <nos...@needed.invalid>
writes:
[]

>Do you know whether the Chromium developers are still
>doing WinXP versions ? There is Chrome, and there is Chromium,
>two different things (but similar).

[]
I was _going_ to say, "whenever I fire up Chrome, I get a bar across the
top, saying something like 'Chrome is no longer being developed for this
platform' - does anyone know how to turn this banner off?", and I was
then going to tell you the version I have. But when I fired it up (I
didn't have it open - my default browser is Firefox 26, and I just use
Chrome when something won't "play nice" with that), for once the moan
bar _didn't_ appear! Anyway, the Chrome I have - which I think is the
latest for XP (32 bit), or at least the latest that self-updates - seems
to be "Version 49.0.2623.112 m".

(I don't have Chromium.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -Abraham
Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S (1809-1865)

[jaugu...@verizon.net]

>I was _going_ to say, "whenever I fire up Chrome, I get a bar across the
>top, saying something like 'Chrome is no longer being developed for this
>platform' - does anyone know how to turn this banner off?", and I was
>then going to tell you the version I have. But when I fired it up (I
>didn't have it open - my default browser is Firefox 26, and I just use
>Chrome when something won't "play nice" with that), for once the moan
>bar _didn't_ appear! Anyway, the Chrome I have - which I think is the
>latest for XP (32 bit), or at least the latest that self-updates - seems
>to be "Version 49.0.2623.112 m".
>

Hi J. P.

My Chrome 49 version is 49.0.2623.75. I see the last part of your
version is "112" which is, I assume, a little later version than my 49th
version.

I will search for the exact version you have.

John

[jaugu...@verizon.net]

>I was _going_ to say, "whenever I fire up Chrome, I get a bar across the
>top, saying something like 'Chrome is no longer being developed for this
>platform' - does anyone know how to turn this banner off?", and I was
>then going to tell you the version I have. But when I fired it up (I
>didn't have it open - my default browser is Firefox 26, and I just use
>Chrome when something won't "play nice" with that), for once the moan
>bar _didn't_ appear! Anyway, the Chrome I have - which I think is the
>latest for XP (32 bit), or at least the latest that self-updates - seems
>to be "Version 49.0.2623.112 m".
>
>(I don't have Chromium.)

Hi J. P.,

I downloaded "Chrome 49.0.2623.112" from www.filehippo.com.
Note: The WinXP Pro (SP3) laptop I want to install Chrome on is
a 32bit (FAT32) computer.

I got the same error as I did with the other 49 version, only this
time I wrote down what I saw (in part):

"Google Chrome Installer has encountered a problem and needs
to Close. Sorry for the inconvenience...". Note: The error report
is long and not well formatted for viewing in Text mode.

FYI: The file size I downloaded is 45,001,120.

Is yours that size?

Thanks in advance, John

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <tk2gccd0vkk8hgvmp...@4ax.com>,
jaugu...@verizon.net writes:
[]

>>bar _didn't_ appear! Anyway, the Chrome I have - which I think is the
>>latest for XP (32 bit), or at least the latest that self-updates - seems
>>to be "Version 49.0.2623.112 m".
>>
>>(I don't have Chromium.)
>
>Hi J. P.,
>
> I downloaded "Chrome 49.0.2623.112" from www.filehippo.com.
>Note: The WinXP Pro (SP3) laptop I want to install Chrome on is
>a 32bit (FAT32) computer.

This one is XP 32 bit, though the disc partitions are NTFS (not my
choice, it just came like that - though the "Everything" search engine
doesn't work with FAT, so I'd probably not use it). I'm not sure if the
processor and hardware are 32 or 64 bit, but it's certainly a 32-bit OS.

>
> I got the same error as I did with the other 49 version, only this
>time I wrote down what I saw (in part):
>
> "Google Chrome Installer has encountered a problem and needs
>to Close. Sorry for the inconvenience...". Note: The error report
>is long and not well formatted for viewing in Text mode.
>
> FYI: The file size I downloaded is 45,001,120.
>
> Is yours that size?

I'm not sure. I let Chrome update itself, I think, so don't have an
installer as such - I don't _think_ it was at that version when I first
installed it, so I imagine it has some sort of incremental download, or,
if it does have a full installer, I've no idea where it put it.
>
> Thanks in advance, John
Sorry not to be too helpful!

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"Bother," said the Borg, "we assimilated a Pooh."

[jaugu...@verizon.net]

> Note: I normally use FireFox V37 in my WinXP PCs, but I wanted to install
>the latest version of Chrome (32 bit version) for WinXP on one of my laptops.
>
> I downloaded Chrome 49 and 50 for WinXP.
>
> When I tried to install Chrome 50, I got an error (not exact words) "Entry
>point for GetThreadID not found in Kernel32.DLL"!!
>
> When I tried to install Chrome 49, I got a different error, "the service

>encountered an error......"

>
> Did anyone install a late version of Chrome (32 bit) for WinXP without
>getting an error?
>

UPDATE:

I was unable to install Chrome 49 (for WinXP) on my WinXP laptop
with a FAT32 hard drive.

I decided to try installing Chrome 49 in my old WinXP desktop PC with a
NTFS hard drive. By Golly it "Worked"!!!!

CONCLUSION:

Chrome 49 requires a NTFS hard drive. Note The error
report (FAT32 laptop) did not make that clear?

John