Chrome – How to Hide Warning After Crash

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --restore-last-session

(suggestion was to create a shortcut since this appears to not be a one time occurrence.  I have created the shortcut, but have not tested it yet.)

Way back someone posted this solution for basically manually pulling the tabs even after missing the .1 sec 'RESTORE' FROM CRASH.

But I was able to recover my tabs and here is what I did:

• Kill your Chrome via Task Manager
• Go to C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
• Rename "Current Session" to "Current Session.old"
• Rename "Current Tabs" to "Current Tabs.old"
• Rename "Last session" to "Current Session"
• Rename "Last Tabs" to "Current Tabs"
• Restart Chrome and there you go!

This worked after Ctrl+Shift+T would not (no response for even the 1st tab), and after right-clicking on new tab and selecting 'restore' was greyed out. Of course I already had the Settings|'On Startup|Continue where I left off' selected long ago, to no avail.

Now if we could only stop Google from crashing in the first place.

I will be checking out "SessionBuddy extension" for Chrome as well, but this solved last night's dilemma.

2021 Update: in recent versions of Chrome paths to Session and Tabs files have changed. They're now all located inside a single folder %localappdata%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Sessions and have names looking like Tabs_132655660123456789. Closing the browser and replacing newer pair of files with the old pair (by renaming them) helps to succesfully recover previous session and even preserve the tab groups - something that SessionBuddy extension can not do.

"Default" in "User Data" is a Chrome profile directory. If you have multiple profiles, directories for any additional ones will be named "Profile 1", "Profile 2" and so on.
Of course, if your home/profile directory is somewhere other than C:\Users\%username%, use the appropriate path.

After doing some research this is the most foolproof solution I can think of:

1. Create a new user account
2. Using Group Policy, restrict the use of the Task Manager and block the Run command which appears when you press WIN+R. Also restrict the use of the context menu.
3. Using either Group Policy or Task Scheduler, assign a logon script for the user. Before you specify the path, open notepad and save a blank file as logon.bat in a location of your choosing
4. Use the path of logon.bat as the path for the logon script. If using Task Scheduler, make sure the trigger is define as User logon and add the /min paramater to the actions tab.
5. Hide the folder that the batch file is in (using File Explorer)

6. Open the batch file you have created using Notepad. Add the following to the batch file:

   @echo off
   TITLE Chrome Kiosk Mode
   taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
   start "" "chrome.exe" --chrome-frame --kiosk -incognito /max
   

You may need to change chrome.exe to the exact filepath to chrome.exe on your machine.

Now, if the user closes the current Chrome window, they will not be able to do anything. Because we killed Windows Explorer at logon, they cannot browse files, or use the GUI. And because we blocked the Run command and Task Manager, they cannot start any applications either.