Prevent Chrome from silently checking your PC for Windows 11 readiness and keep your hardware details off Google’s radar.

These results will likely help determine how many users are still running Chrome on devices that can’t be upgraded to Windows ...

Windows 11 comes with Edge, which uses the same technology as Chrome. If you want Chrome, use Edge to navigate to the Google Chrome download page, and click Download Chrome .

Based on a Chromium commit, Google's web browser is peeking at whether your PC is eligible for Windows 11, and this functionality is supposedly live now.

Those on Windows 10 reported that they were having no issues, suggesting that there was something specifically within the Windows 11 KB5027231 patch causing Chrome to crash.

I and a colleague from Laptop Mag attempted to install Google Chrome on four Windows 11 laptops, only to see a message saying: “This app can’t run on your PC. To find a version for your PC ...

As to the cause, Windows Latest did some detective work, and theorized that what Google had done here – somehow – was accidentally swap the Arm installer of Chrome with the x86 installer ...