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Acer Games Chrome extension pushed to my Chromebook

19/06/2017 / Leave a Comment

I’m not happy. Some party, maybe Acer through Google somehow, I don’t know, has pushed a Chrome extension called Acer Games to my C740. Never had any of that Windows-like OEM crapware on the Chromebook/ChromeOS platform, didn’t even know that existed. But it seems it’s a thing now. This is not nice.

Locating Chromebook boot errors

12/01/2017 / Leave a Comment

“An unexpected error has occurred during recovery” was the error message I got after trying to recover my Acer C740 Chromebook with multiple different USB sticks flashed with the Chrome Recovery tools by two different computers. The recovery process would always start by the verification of the USB stick and then end in the stated … [Read more…]