Google chrome has stopped working

I have a laptop that is just about a week old and Google chrome has been giving trouble starting. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times, deleting left over registry items and it still would not work. I found a solution that worked but has left me still wondering why the original would not work.

What I did was to rename the exe file in the chrome location folder. So...

1. right click on the icon on the desktop
2. go to properties
3. click on "open file location"
4. rename the "chrome.exe" file to something like "chromer.exe"
5. back in the properties window, change the file name also in the target section
6. click "ok"

try opening chrome now and it should work. 

you may see that the original icon does not show any more, this can be changed by going back to the location of the chrome exe file and 

1. right click on the file
2. click on send to -> desktop (create shortcut)
3. rename file to what you want

and that's it.