First you need to enable show hidden files, folders and drive from Control Panel > Folder Options > View tab. If you want to manually delete the outdated Chrome from your computer, here is how you do it. The old version of Chrome takes up about 80MB space from your hard drive and it is actually safe to remove the redundant old Chrome files since they are not being used at all. One probable reason that the old version is still kept because of rollback purposes but the official Chrome FAQ page mentioned that they don’t recommend you to roll back Google Chrome to a previous version. Obviously chrome.exe with the newer version number are the most updated Chrome while old_chrome.exe and the folder with older version number is obsolete.

If you check the folder where Google Chrome is installed, you would noticed that there are 2 folders with different version numbers and two chrome executable files (chrome.exe and old_chrome.exe). Whatever the case is, have you ever wondered what goes on when Google Chrome is being updated? Will the new version overwrite the old version? Or does the old version gets uninstalled automatically? The answer is the previous version of Google Chrome are kept and not removed. Even Firefox is trying to play the catch up game but I still don’t think they will ever catch up when Chrome is already at version 16 now and Firefox is only at v9. You may not have noticed it because Google automatically updates and installs the latest stable version of Chrome.

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