Process.Start(url) broken on Windows 8/Chrome - are there alternatives?

Question

To open a URL from a .NET application, many sites (including on StackOverflow) cite this example:

Process.Start(\"http://www.google.com/\");

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Answer 1

Armin's answer is the one I ended up using and it's worked well.

I just want to add that I only get the 'Class Not Registered' exception when I'm starting the process from a program that is running with elevated permissions. This appears to be new behavior with Windows 8.