Google Updater schedule, advice needed

[stduc]

I hope this is the right place to post this.

My PC just ran really slowly. A little investigation showed it was updating google earth. I thought I had stopped Google updating its software willy nilly, but obviously not.

Now I find that this command

"C:\Program Files\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe" /c

is being run on login and that this command is being run by the scheduler every hour?

"C:\Program Files\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe" /ua /installsource scheduler

Now I wondering whether to stop it all together, or since google seem to have some sneaky way of re-starting any tasks I delete from the scheduler I could maybe reduce it to once a month?

Thoughts anyone?



[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]

 

[linney]

Can you control it via the Service called Google Update Service (gupdate), or by entries in MsConfig?

"Keeps your Google software up to date. If this service is disabled or stopped, your Google software will not be kept up to date, meaning security vulnerabilities that may arise cannot be fixed and features may not work. This service uninstalls itself when there is no Google software using it."

AutoRuns for Windows v9.35

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

 

[stduc]

Thanks Linney, but I know I can disable it. Although I will admit I obviously haven't been too successful before as I already disabled the Google Software Updater and it still somehow got itself going again even though I also deleted the scheduled tasks. This time I'm thinking OK - fair enough, good idea, but once an hour! No way, once a month will do but do I still disable the Google Software Updater and the new Google Update Service (gupdate1c9ab16c5ff6890) ? or leave them on manual or automatic?

I am also asking if re-setting the schedules to monthly is going to (a) work and (b) stick.

I currently have disabled the two services and set the scheduler to this

GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore 20:20:00, 07/06/2010
GoogleUpdateTaskMachineUA 20:30:00, 07/06/2010

Is this a good plan or a bad plan?

I won't even ask why Google do the updates this way instead of having the programs check for updates when you run them grrrrrr

[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]

 

[stduc]

Update

The plot thickens.

This morning I had occasion to go to Google Maps using Internet Explorer. Immediately MSI Installer started running! I cancelled it (I had to cancel it several times as it kept restarting)

What is going on here?

A little investigation later and I discovered that Google Updater is old and has been replaced. So, working on the assumption that something at sometime had gone wrong as I appeared to have both versions of Googles update mechanism installed I tried to uninstall Google Updater. I couldn't find an uninstaller and it wasn't in Add/Remove programs so I decided it was registry edit time.

I exported and deleted the following registry keys

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{61E28BF8-C02B-499F-8E7A-34C1E4A1C649}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\{61E28BF8-C02B-499F-8E7A-34C1E4A1C649}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\gusvc
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Enum\Root\LEGACY_GUSVC
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\gusvc
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_GUSVC
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\gusvc

Then I deleted

C:\Program Files\Google\Common\Google Updater


On reboot the service had gone - Yay!

But on a revisit to Google Maps - the installer started again. grrrrrr -

Should I let it run? or not?


[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]

 

[linney]

I don't know the answer, if your going to keep using Google software then you are in the hands of the software and whatever it is programmed to do.

I would have thought that disabling the Service would have sufficed with no updates from Google until you enabled it?

Are you running with an Administrator or a Limited User

 

[BadBigBen]

I'd suggest you run a HiJackThis log and paste it here, so that I or someone else could take a look at it...

on my PC, I just deactivated the services and all was good, but probably due to the muck up on your PC with the two updaters it keeps coming back until you either remove them completely or let them have their way for now, and then get rid of the sucker...

Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"

 

[stduc]

Turned out to be an add-on - GEPluginCoClass plugin_ax.dll
Disabled it and problem has gone away! Maps still work just fine for me. So I don't know what it was trying to do and I'm not overly concerned.

[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]

 

[BadBigBen]

Thanks for the update there, stduc, and glad to hear that you fixed it to your liking...



Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"