HP 15 laptop: cannot download Google Chrome on Windows 8.1 / new laptop HP

Hi, I just bought this new laptop HP TODAY ' TODAY - and tried to download Google Chrome and set Google as my homepage because I work with Google products for the last 5 years and this is my preference.

However, as a first step, I get a message saying that I can't download Chrome, even though I checked the download is for Windows 8.1, then it has also triggered a virus infection and caused the security software do a scan of threat - three times!  Trying to just set Google as my home page, when I click on the button 'create' real, the screen freezes simply.

It's almost as if Yahoo / HP does not allow me to choose my browser and search engine... anyone know how to fix this?   I've never had this happen before.

Thank you!!!

Hello

Thanks for posting in the Forum from HP Support.

In this particular case, HP and Yahoo keep the computer to become the Chrome browser. Especially when you mentioned that triggered security a software alarm, this means that most likely you tried to download a fake copy of the Chrome browser and thanks be to God, the security software has prevented to install. It is quite common nowadays because it's popular software and impersonations exist. They sometimes appear on the top of the search result in the search engines, and they do not lead to the site from another server but the official seller.  In addition, if this is not the case, your computer may also have already been infected by certain pests that redirect your traffic to fake Chrome.

There is only one official place to download this product - official site of Google/sub-sub-site

Click here-online https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/index.html and choose the blue download Chrome button in the middle of the page

Follow the instructions on the screen.

A few additional instructions to Google-> https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95346?hl=en

Here are some other instructions how to set up the home page in Internet Explorer

http://blog.LapTopMag.com/set-blank-browser-home-page

To Google, instead of the blank page, you enter www.google.com as the address of the page

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Internet-Explorer/change-home-page#IE=ie-11

Hope this helps

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