To uninstall GoogleUpdate, you must do it manually by removing every file, registry key, and task that mentions GoogleUpdate. This must be done because it’s uninstall script does not work at all.
A while back I updated Google Earth and it forced me to install a tool called GoogleUpdater. All was well. However, over a few weeks I noticed that GoogleUpdate.exe seemed to want to run constantly. Lo and behold, it installed a service on my computer. That was fine with me. I went into the Services off of the Control Panel and changed the startup from Automatic to Maual. I’ll run it when I need it. Then a few reboots later, noticed that the GoogleUpdate.exe process was still running.
At this point, my curiosity was turning into anger. “Why does this have to run all the time?” Then I went into the registry to the Run folder, where things like to go to startup all the time, and cleaned it up. Then I ran msconfig to check the startup items. Then I cleaned out my %temp% directory. I was thinking “Alright, this program should not run after I reboot”. But it did.
Time for the uninstall. Start–>Control Panel–>Add Remove Programs. Selected and uninstalled GoogleUpdate. “That should take care of it.” Rebooted. Check Task Manager. GoogleUpdate.exe was running. Now I am angry. GoogleUpdate was acting like a virus. I went on the web and found I was not alone. I ran through all the suggestions. Reinstall GoogleUpdate then uninstall? Fail. Uninstall from Add/Remove Programs? Fail. Uninstall from the command line? Fail.
Then I decided to do a computer wide file search on the name “google”. Found quite a few things. The most interesting one was a Task. GoogleUpdate installs a Task that every time a user logs in it runs GoogleUpdate. The one place I didn’t think to check earlier. That’s why it ran despite all my prior efforts. I deleted the task. Then I proceeded to delete every GoogleUpdate file I found in the file system and the registry. Rebooted the system and finally the GoogleUpdate process is gone.
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