What is googleupdaterservice.exe?
Part of Google Updater by Google
What is it?
Google products use a process called Google Update to periodically check for updates. This process sends information, such as version number, language, operating system, and other installation or update-related details, back to Google servers. Google Updater is a Windows Service which runs in the background of Windows and automatically starts up when your PC boots. It checks for software udpates and automatically downloads and installs them if found.
Description of googleupdaterservice.exe from Google“To make sure that you're protected by the latest security updates, Google Chrome automatically updates whenever it detects that a new version of the browser is available. The update process happens in the background and doesn't require any action on your part. Google Chrome uses Google Update to keep you up to date with the latest and most secure version of Chrome. In order to provide greater transparency and to make the technology available to other applications, the Google Update technology is open source. Google Update periodically sends a non-unique four-letter tag to Google which contains information about how you obtained Google Chrome. This tag is not personally identifiable, does not encode any information about when you obtained Google Chrome, and is shared with everyone who obtained Google Chrome the same way. Google Update also sends other information that helps us understand how many people are using Chrome and how often they use it.”
How does googleupdaterservice.exe run?
Service - googleupdaterservice.exe runs as a background Windows service called 'gusvc' (Google Software Updater). This service runs as the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges on the local computer, and acts as the computer on the network. Google Software Updater runs as a program that can be started by the Service Controller and that obeys the service control protocol. This type of service runs in a process by itself.
How does googleupdaterservice.exe start?
Scheduled task - googleupdaterservice.exe is launched automatically by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\Google Software Updater'. Task Scheduler provides the ability to schedule the launch of programs or scripts at pre-defined times or after specified time intervals or even with event-based triggers.
Community
What is the community is seeing? | What is the community is doing? |
About 0.6% of all Boost users have the googleupdaterservice.exe process running. | Of the 0.6% of googleupdaterservice.exe users, 90.0% have disabled it. |
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Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\Program Files\google\common\google updater\googleupdaterservice.exe
Are there other versions of Google Updater?
Why are multiple of the same versions listed?
What else is related?
What Windows OS versions does this run on?
Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.131072)
Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.196608)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6000.0)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Basic (6.0.6001.65536)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6001.65536)
Windows Vista (TM) Business (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Basic (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows 7 Home Basic (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7600.0)
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