How to disable GoogleUpdate.exe?

by Harsh Agrawal on January 28, 2009

in Google, Software, Tips and trick

I always keep track of which process is running on my system for two purpose:

Google update

Google update

Security and Resource

I don’t know how many of you have noticed GoogleUpdate.exe as a task in your task manager, Though it is not resource hungry but I like to update the most of the service myself so I disable those update which I require once in a while.

How to disable GoogleUpdate.exe ?

Follow these simple steps to disable GoogleUpdates automatically.

Go to Control Panel> Schedule tasks

Select GoogleUpdatetaskuser

Select the task and click on delete and confirm it by clicking on yes.

Once done go to task manager and kill the Googleupdater process, from now on when you will restart your pc you will not see the Googleupdater process in your task manager.

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1 BAS January 29, 2009 at 12:58

This is the only thing I hate abt google products, even if you are using google toolbar smthing like googletoolbarnotifier.exe willl be shown up in task manager

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2 Web Design February 16, 2009 at 16:00

I dunt have words to thank you, because i’ll have to disable all the time this Gupdate.exe and by defualt in few minutes it run again. I’m going to check this out today itself.

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3 Nitesh patel March 24, 2009 at 18:09

thanks man for this useful info i always tried to disable but now its done.

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