How do you restore Google Chrome?

note: this step-by-step is intended for Windows 7 users, although it is likely similar for other Windows operating systems if you are having trouble completing this tutorial due to restricted privileges I recommend instead completing this tutorial on a computer on which you have administrative privileges and that you have signed into Chrome with your google account beforeaccidentally deleting your bookmarks

step one:

DO NOT RE-LAUNCH OR EXIT google CHROME or the ability to restore the bookmarks may be lost (the backup file may re-write itself)

step two:

navigate to C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\google\Chrome\User Data\Default

or C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\google\Chrome\User Data\[profile name] if you are not using the default profile

step three:

delete the "Bookmarks" file

step four:

rename the "Bookmarks.bak" file to "Bookmarks"

step five:

restart Chrome and if needed log out and log back into your google account