Relaunch fast if outdated (Google Chrome Group Policy)

What it does

Specifies the minimum release age beyond which relaunch notifications are more aggressive. The age is calculated from the time the currently-running version was last served to clients. If a browser relaunch or device restart is needed to finalize a pending update and the current version has been outdated for more than the number of days specified by this setting, the RelaunchNotificationPeriod policy is overridden to 2 hours. If the RelaunchNotification policy is set to 1 ('Required'), users will be forced to relaunch or restart at the end of the period. If not set, or if the release age cannot be determined, the RelaunchNotificationPeriod policy will be used for all updates.

What it writes

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry key: Software\Policies\Google\Chrome

Options

Option	Type	Registry value	Allowed values
Time period (days)	Number (decimal)	`RelaunchFastIfOutdated`	7 to 2000000000

Configure and deploy

Choose a state and the option values; the output below is generated from the template for exactly that.

Output could not be generated from the retained template.

History 6 retained releases

155.0.8059.8519 Oct 2026
- Already present in the first release ChangeIntel keeps.

5 later releases left it unchanged.

Template

Internal name: RelaunchFastIfOutdated
Namespace: Google.Policies.Chrome
Template file: chrome.admx
Release: Google Chrome 156.0.8078.48 · file set 1376a9ec58cd0f91…

Definition, editor controls and support

Definition

<policy class="Both" displayName="$(string.RelaunchFastIfOutdated)" explainText="$(string.RelaunchFastIfOutdated_Explain)" key="Software\Policies\Google\Chrome" name="RelaunchFastIfOutdated" presentation="$(presentation.RelaunchFastIfOutdated)" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions">
      <parentCategory ref="Google.Policies.Chrome:Relaunch" />
      <supportedOn ref="Google.Policies.Chrome:SUPPORTED_WIN7" />
      <elements>
        <decimal id="RelaunchFastIfOutdated" maxValue="2000000000" minValue="7" valueName="RelaunchFastIfOutdated" />
      </elements>
    </policy>

Editor controls

<presentation id="RelaunchFastIfOutdated" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions"><decimalTextBox refId="RelaunchFastIfOutdated">Time period (days):</decimalTextBox></presentation>

Supported platforms and category

Google.Policies.Chrome:category:Relaunch
<category displayName="$(string.Relaunch_group)" name="Relaunch" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions">
      <parentCategory ref="Google.Policies.Chrome:googlechrome" />
    </category>
Google.Policies.Chrome:category:googlechrome
<category displayName="$(string.googlechrome)" name="googlechrome" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions">
      <parentCategory ref="Google.Policies:Cat_Google" />
    </category>
Google.Policies.Chrome:definition:SUPPORTED_WIN7
<definition displayName="$(string.SUPPORTED_WIN7)" name="SUPPORTED_WIN7" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions" />
Google.Policies:category:Cat_Google
<category displayName="$(string.google)" name="Cat_Google" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions" />
Google.Policies.Chrome:category:Relaunch
<category displayName="$(string.Relaunch_group)" name="Relaunch" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions">
      <parentCategory ref="Google.Policies.Chrome:googlechrome" />
    </category>
<strings><string id="Google.Policies.Chrome:Relaunch_group">Relaunch</string></strings>
Google.Policies.Chrome:category:googlechrome
<category displayName="$(string.googlechrome)" name="googlechrome" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions">
      <parentCategory ref="Google.Policies:Cat_Google" />
    </category>
<strings><string id="Google.Policies.Chrome:googlechrome">Google Chrome</string></strings>
Google.Policies.Chrome:definition:SUPPORTED_WIN7
<definition displayName="$(string.SUPPORTED_WIN7)" name="SUPPORTED_WIN7" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions" />
<strings><string id="Google.Policies.Chrome:SUPPORTED_WIN7">Microsoft Windows 7 or later</string></strings>
Google.Policies:category:Cat_Google
<category displayName="$(string.google)" name="Cat_Google" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions" />
<strings><string id="Google.Policies:google">Google</string></strings>