Comments on: How to Remove or Disable GoogleUpdate.exe in XP / Vista

By: critofur

critofur — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:57:39 +0000

There are no scheduled tasks shown in my control panel Scheduled Tasks applet window.

By: stine

stine — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:28:06 +0000

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

By: durdy

durdy — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:32:18 +0000

Type in “Administrative Tools” in your search bar and it's called “Task Scheduler” for Vista.

By: a name to comment

a name to comment — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:56:53 +0000

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.

By: m

Fri, 01 May 2009 12:20:09 +0000

thank man

By: anton

anton — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:59:53 +0000

Thanks broo, your tips simple but powerfull…

By: Ozh

Ozh — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:35:40 +0000

Does not work. After some time I noticed the task was back again.

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:24:13 +0000

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.

By: kbywg

kbywg — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:05:31 +0000

In my Windows XP Task Manager there was also a Google Updater Service.exe which I also deleted.

By: albcoe

albcoe — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:43:47 +0000

Nice, thanks