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My machine has 5 Google updaters running:
Service: Google Update Service (gupdate)
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.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe /svc
Service: Google Update Service (gupdatem)
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.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe /medsvc
Service: Google Updater Service
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe
Scheduled Task: GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore
Keeps your Google software up to date. If this task 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 task uninstalls itself when there is no Google software using it.
- Runs at logon of any user
Runs daily at 10:08 AM
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe /C
Scheduled Task: GoogleUpdateTaskMachineUA
Keeps your Google software up to date. If this task 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 task uninstalls itself when there is no Google software using it.
Runs every hour
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe /ua /installsource scheduler
Now obviously Google doesn't need all these items running at the same time; some are going to be legacy duplicates.
Which one is the current, true, preferred, Google updater?
Would the real Google updater please stand up,
please stand up,
please stand up.
My setup:
- Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
- Chrome
- one interactive user account
So we can provide an accurate answer: Which operating system? How many user accounts? Which Google software do you currently use? – iglvzx – 2012-03-13T14:17:23.050
3One might argue that because you did not explicitly approve of these tasks and processes, none of them should be allowed to run. As far as I'm aware, the scheduled task exists only to restore the update .exe to startup status if the user manually disables it. Since it exists purely to subvert your will as the user, I suggest getting rid of it. – Fopedush – 2012-03-13T16:23:05.360