When you install Google Chrome on the first times, you will can use Google search as default search engine. And you also can change to other search engines as Bing, Yahoo... However, if you computer has virus (malware), you can't change the default malware search engine to others. You will see this message: " This setting is enforced by your administrators. " Here we show you how to remove them (SlightSearch.ru, Coldsearch, ...) from Chrome. Then you can change your browser search engine: Open Windows command promt as Administrator Input below code and enter it line by line: RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers" RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy" gpupdate /force Then waiting for updating policy. Until you see this message " Computer Policy update has completed successfully. User Policy update has completed successfully. " That's all. Wish succeed! Now you may move on to chrome for search engine settings...