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Tech-Recipes: How to Remove or Disable GoogleUpdate.exe in XP / Vista

  • nafnosseb · 1 year ago
    Cool, i had 2 google update processes running. No longer.
  • albcoe · 1 year ago
    Nice, thanks
  • kbywg · 1 year ago
    In my Windows XP Task Manager there was also a Google Updater Service.exe which I also deleted.
  • Rod · 1 year ago
    YIKES! In Vista I finally found the Task Manager in the Control Panel under the Administrative Tools but can't find anything entitled "Google Update". Obviously this task is more complicated with Vista. The Task Manager has a "Library" with a sub-heading of "Microsoft" with a sub-heading of "Windows" and 26 sub-files beneath that - none contain Google Update.
    The only place I found GoogleUpdate.exe was in the program files and I am afraid to delete that. What if I want it back someday?
    Maybe my "Vista Manager" program already disabled Google Update as an unnecessary program.
  • Ozh · 1 year ago
    Does not work. After some time I noticed the task was back again.
  • anton · 8 months ago
    Thanks broo, your tips simple but powerfull...
  • m · 7 months ago
    thank man
  • a name to comment · 7 months ago
    These instructions do NOT work for Vista. There is nothing called "Scheduled Tasks" in the vista control panel. When you find the task in the task explorer, you get a message, "Error opening process, denied". No description about this either. Next link.
  • durdy · 7 months ago
    Type in "Administrative Tools" in your search bar and it's called "Task Scheduler" for Vista.
  • stine · 6 months ago
    I think they changed the name of the task to "GoogleUpdateTaskMachine"

    I set mine to run after 600 minutes of idle time pretty much insuring that it will only run saturday morning at 11am
  • critofur · 3 months ago
    There are no scheduled tasks shown in my control panel Scheduled Tasks applet window.