Quick fix for Google Chrome Crashing in Windows

Over the last few days I have run into a few PCs people have given me to fix with Google Chrome installations that crash immediately upon opening.  By crashing I mean Chrome's way of crashing, where the tab shows a big blue page with a sad face that says "Aw snap."

If you delete the users folder in Chrome's directory (please back it up first), Chrome should start working again. Keep in mind that this will clear all of your settings, extensions, bookmarks, etc.  To delete this folder, enable the display of hidden files in windows explorer.
For XP: C:\Documents and settings\your user name\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data
Vista / Win7:  C:\Users\your user name\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data.
Delete the user data folder and fire up Chrome again.

Side note: It seems that the crashing in this manner may be related to spyware/adware installing bad extensions in Chrome.  Both of the computers I experienced this problem with were laden with all sorts of crapware.

Solving problems to create bigger ones

I solve computer problems all the time. Normally when I solve problems, things are supposed to work. However this was not the result in the case of "The day before Thanksgiving server crash". I was getting ready to leave school and go home for my extended weekend, when the server crashed. I place the blame on Symantec for causing this problem. It all started with a computer in the lab that had a registry problem. I decided that I was going to Ghost the machine. I began a ghostcast from the server, but for some reason the client would not recieve from the server. I began to think that Symantec Endpoint Protection was blocking the application. I decided to disable it, but still ghost would not work. I began to uninstall Endpoint, when I discoved that I needed to use the "directed broadcast" option instead of the "multicast" option. I finished the ghostcast but the Endpoint uninstaller was locked up. So I restarted the server, and when it began to boot Windows, a "ntldr is missing" error presented itself. The server 2008 disk does not have a recovery console, so I decided that the only option was to reformat and start from scratch. About 6 hours later we had reinstalled server 2008, reconfigured DNS, DHCP, WSUS, Active Directory, Routing and Remote Access, and File Serving. Unfortunately we still have to reconnect about 30 computers back to the domain.
I love to work with computers normally, but after spending the rest of my day fixing stupid server problems, I didnt really want to look at any more computers. Why can't technology just work? Where is the self repairing technology?
I dont recommend Symantec Endpoint Protection to anyone.

Portal

I got an awesome game called portal. If you haven't played it you should. Anyways, after playing the game for about an hour it started to crash on me. I thought at first that it was just a bad file or something, so I reinstalled the game. After crashing on me several more times after that, i decided to check my video card temperatures( I have an Nvidia 7600gt). After running the game my temps were about 65 deg. C. That seemed pretty hot to me and that seemed to be why the game was crashing after playing for a while. It never crashed right away if my computer had just been sitting, but if I had played it for a while and got my graphics processor hot, then it would crash. So I went into my Nvidia control panel and made some tweaks to my GPU fan speed settings. Now when portal runs the fan on my video card spins 50% faster than normal. I will have to play for a while and see if this change keeps my game stable and running.