Need to copy your Chrome profile to a new computer, along with your bookmarks, passwords, extensions, autofill, logins and open tabs? This tutorial will show you how.

There are two primary ways to move a Chrome profile to another computer – manual copy and automatic transfer. We will cover both in this guide, although if you prefer to just skip to the easier, automatic option, you can click here for automatic transfer of your Chrome profile from one computer to another.

Doesn’t Google sync do that?

Chrome sync is useful, but it is not a full profile copy. It requires a Google account (and signing in on both computers), and it does not bring everything: extension settings, local site data and some saved logins stay behind. If you have several profiles, each one has to be synced separately, too.

If you want Chrome on the new computer to be exactly like on the old one – or you don’t want to use a Google account at all – you need to copy the profile itself. Here is how.

Manual copy of your Chrome profile

In order to manually copy your Chrome profile to a new computer, you will need to follow these steps:

Close Chrome on your old computer.
Copy the “User Data” folder found in this path to a portable media device such as a USB or external drive:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\
If you have more than one profile, they are all inside that folder – “Default”, “Profile 1”, “Profile 2” and so on.
Export this registry key to the same portable media:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\PreferenceMACs]
Move the drive to the new computer.
On the new computer, copy all of the files in the “User Data” folder from your portable media to “C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\”
Double click on the registry key that, in step 4, you saved to the portable media device.
Now, download and install Chrome, and launch it.

Doable? Yes. Easy? Not exactly. And there is one important catch: Chrome encrypts your saved passwords using your Windows account on the old computer. A manual copy will bring your bookmarks, extensions and settings – but on a different computer, your saved passwords will not survive the trip.

To copy the whole profile, passwords included – and to make things much, much easier – you can just let a dedicated transfer product do this whole thing for you. Read on for instructions on that.

Automatic Transfer of Your Chrome Profile to a New Computer

The easiest way to copy a Chrome profile from one computer to another is to use a dedicated transfer tool – Zinstall WinWin. No registry edits or folder copy required – and no Google account needed.

It can transfer not just your Chrome profile, but all other apps you have as well, along with your profiles, accounts, personalization, and all files from your old computer – automatically.

And it does not just copy files or profiles; apps get installed automatically on the new computer, and configured just like on the old one. You don’t need to install them yourself and you don’t need to configure them yourself.

It requires no technical knowledge to use, too. If you know how to download a file from the internet, you know how to use it – and can save a lot of time and avoid a lot of frustration when you copy your Chrome profile to a new computer.

How to copy your Chrome profile to a new computer

Run Zinstall WinWin on your current computer (the one you are transferring from).
Note: You can get Zinstall WinWin here.
Run Zinstall WinWin on the new computer
1. You don’t need to do any configurations for the computers to connect – it’s automatic
2. If the computers are already connect to same router, same Internet connection, or same wireless connection, you don’t need anything else
3. If the computers are not connected at all, connect them with a network / Ethernet cable
If you’d like to select which applications and files you want to transfer, press the Advanced menu. If you just want to transfer everything, you don’t need to go to the Advanced menu.
Press “Go” on the Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer to start the transfer

That’s it!

Once the transfer is done, your Chrome profile will be all set on the new computer, with your bookmarks, extensions, logins, passwords, even your recently viewed websites – just like on the old computer.

And not just Chrome – this transfers your other apps, profiles, settings and files as well.

The new computer will feel just like home.

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