About Gary Burge
I am a graying web programmer, techno-activist, romantic idealist, who never quite left the sixties, even though I became quite successful in the Internet space.
My business philosphy is different now than when I toiled in the bigco world. About a decade ago I experienced a life-altering epiphany: I was sacrificing my personal life and health to feed a corporate monster.
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GoogleUpdate.exe?
What is GoogleUpdate.exe and why won’t Google allow me to uninstall it?
I think it appeared in the list of services after I reinstalled Google Gears.
I have uninstalled every Google program (Gears, GTalk, Google Desktop, etc.), and disabled GoogleUpdate.exe in the list of services. I even deleted every Google reference in the registry.
When I reboot, however, the some process runs which re-enables the GoogleUpdate.exe service.
As a last resort, I renamed the executable file at C:\Program Files\Google\Update\1.1.27.3\GoogleUpdate.exe to “x_GoogleUpdate.exe”, which is a sucky way to regain control of your own property.
What’s the deal, Google?