So this is perhaps the most unusual error and indeed the most meaningless one I've come across for a while when trying to start chrome this morning.
"The application has failed to start because its side-by-site configuration is incorrect."
Rebooting made no difference
Windows update did install 2017-10 Cumulative update and chrome started logging errors at 3am. From event log I can see the following.
Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe". Dependent Assembly 61.0.3163.100,language="*",type="win32",version="61.0.3163.100" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.
Can not remove chrome as even its setup can't be found by windows and when run manually does nothing.
It appears its a visual c++ issue.
The simple solution in the end was to go to https://www.google.com/chrome/, click on download chrome and let it install.
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