Comments on: How to: Uninstall the Google Updater

By: monica

monica — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:33:47 +0000

i dont know why you guys are making it complicated when there is a simple way of disabling the service?

http://www.ceveni.com/2008/11/how-to-disable-annoying-googleupdateexe.html

By: Leo N

Leo N — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:18:45 +0000

it seems that does the trick from all the post I see, but since I am a computer novice I don´t know how to add the command line to the file. I know it probably sounds stupid, but if you could help me out or anyone else who has knowledge on how to get that accomplished. Thank you.

By: Steve S

Steve S — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:23:33 +0000

Thanks Martin, your post got me to check for the Old GoogleUpdaterService.exe file and sure enough : ) I didn’t delete it in the same manner as you detailed but I was successful just the same; thanks to your advice.

Many thanks sir.

By: Dion Drakes

Dion Drakes — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:36:23 +0000

@ Martin. Thanks for this fix! I’ve been trying to get the darn thing to stop running when I reboot. Much appreciated.

By: Lance T

Lance T — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:43:20 +0000

Martin K – Thanks !

GUpdater successfully removed from my XP Services console.

By: Martin Kalén

Martin Kalén — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:17:44 +0000

The older “GoogleUpdaterService.exe” (typically installed in C:\Program Files\Google\Common\Google Updater) that has no uninstaller entry can be uninstalled with the following command line:

GoogleUpdaterService /UnregServer

This will stop the service and delete it´s entry so that the EXE can be deleted.

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By: Daniel Dočekal

Daniel Dočekal — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:05:25 +0000

Google Updater is not in C:\Program Files\Google\Google Updater\GoogleUpdater.exe folder.

instead it is in C:\Program Files\Google\Update\1.1.25.0\GoogleUpdater.exe

And it does not accept -Unistall option – cannot, no such option is available in code of program.