Comments on: How to Remove Annoying GoogleUpdate.exe Background Process After Installing Google Chrome?

By: rameshbabu

rameshbabu — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:12:20 +0000

I really thank to u.cause i got disturb due to this updater.now i feel from free

By: darkhorn

darkhorn — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:21:25 +0000

googleupdate.exe is very very annoying!

By: Bernard du Toit

Bernard du Toit — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:37:11 +0000

I forgot to add:

The url to download the stand alone installer is: http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/154.36/chrome_installer.exe

BUT in order to get the newest version replace the 154.36 with the LAST PART of latest build. Find this info at: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/

Like: v1.0.154.53 use only 154.53

I'm not the first to discover this "METHOD C", look at: http://www.askvg.com/chrome-offline-installer-full-standalone-installer-without-google-update/

By: Bernard du Toit

Bernard du Toit — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:25:40 +0000

Hi, I just found 'n "METHOD D" to disable google update from installing with chrome!! This dow not require any tweaking on your system. All you need to do is download the "Full Chrome Installer" and then install from this exe. If done this way it does not create any google update files or entries anywhere. My conclusion is that the "Chrome Installer" that you download from the website to install chrome, is creating this entries and file.

By: Alex Araujo

Alex Araujo — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:46:45 +0000

Looks like GoogleUpdate is a mutant virus!

By: beng tang

beng tang — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:45:31 +0000

There is another googleupdate.exe in
C:\Program Files\Google\Update\

And yet another one was in
C:\Program Files\Google\Google Update\

By: Burchfield

Burchfield — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:53:19 +0000

I followed the above steps but I still have googleupdate.exe running in my processes. Anyone else having same problem.

By: Vansloneker

Vansloneker — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:44:06 +0000

Go to system tools, local security policies, software restrictions, extra rules. Make new hash, simply disable googleupdate.exe

By: occam

occam — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:31:12 +0000

There is a much simpler way ('METHOD C')

Download SRWare Iron, which is a 'safe' Chrome i.e. with GoogleUpdate.exe and some other snoopware (e.g. search terms logging) disabled.

http://www.srware.net/software_srware_iron_download.php

Don't be put off by the German site. The language of Iron can be simply set to English.

By: Mayur

Mayur — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:02:46 +0000

a nice tutorial vg
Thanks