The Software Reporter Tool is found under the following path on Windows 7 and newer versions of Windows :
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\SwReporter\VERSION\software_reporter_tool.exe
While you can delete the content of the entire folder or rename this executable or destroy it in some way,
this is only a temporary measure since it will
return on the next update of the Chrome browser.
A better solution is to remove permissions so that no one may access the folder or run any program in it, as follows:
- Right-click on the folder
SwReporter
and select Properties
- Click on the Security tab
- Click Advanced
- Click on Disable inheritance and select Remove all inherited permissions from this object
- Select Apply and when prompted click Yes.
- Click OK and OK again
No group or user will now be able to access this folder,
not even the administrators :
The tool cannot be run anymore and updates cannot be applied to the folder.
If in the future you would like to undo the operation, enable
inheritance again for the folder.
The top answer, is still relevant and still works. Unless you want a guide for Windows 8/10? Although I think that answer still works the same. – Kingsley Zhong – 2018-02-27T01:56:14.963
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@Alex ... using
– Hastur – 2018-02-27T06:32:54.190chromium
instead ofchrome
(and dis-installing the last one)? :-) Just to say if this is a recurring behaviour maybe you can use alternative approaches. If you need chrome for work (e.g to check the layout of a site you are creating...) that is another case (you can always use it in a virtual machine)... but for personal needs chromium should work fine too.If you hate chrome just use FireFox. Or Brave if you want something based on chromium. https://brave.com/
– HackSlash – 2018-02-28T00:01:11.990So sick of this damn 'tool' – Simon – 2020-02-29T02:28:40.227