Tuesday 28 January 2020

Google Chrome - Managed by your organization - how to remove?

In some organisations your Web Browser is limited by your organisation.
For example can be deactivated Sync, or switched off geo-location, or disabled installation of some extensions.
you can check it like there: support.google.com: is_chrome_managed?
There are two places in Windows Registry where these policies could be set:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\

To remove these Registry keys and start browser again can does not help. Mach better is to set values. For example like there:
DefaultGeolocationSetting = 3
PasswordManagerEnabled = 1
SyncDisabled = 0
BuiltInDnsClientEnabled = 1

Monday 13 January 2020

VMware and Chrome - damaged or washed out colors or transparent backgrounds

Sometimes in the Google Crome in VMware Virtual Machine the colors are damaged or washed out or backgrounds are transparent.
For example correct:

and incorrect (background looks to be transparent):

How to solve it?
I know three methods:
1. Switch off 3D Graphics Acceleration in VMware Virtual Machine Settings (you need first shutdown the VM:

2. The worst solution: In Chrome Flags change flag "force color profile" to "scRGB linear (HDR where available)"
(write in address line chrome://flags/ and then search for "force color profile"):

3. My preferred: In Chrome Flags change flag "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" to "OpenGL"
(write in address line chrome://flags/ and then search for "ANGLE"):