Hello, How do I remove two Google Update entries in Services (gudate, gudatem), both are disabled, I thought they were removed when I uninstalled the related software. This is a Windows 7, 64-bit notebook.
I installed Google Earth a few months ago thinking it was a globe-type program, I have since switched to marble, but uninstalled it using Revo Uninstaller. I've also tried Chrome in Sandboxie, just to check it out.
What's important is that everything Google is turned off in msconfig>Startup and msconfig>Services - after Hiding All MS services. I keep all freeloaders out except my AV for best performance.
It can't really run then although you are being tracked by Google any time you are signed into one of their sites.
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I had the same problem as the thread starter. Window 7 64bit, removed the updater but the services and a bunch of junk still remained. In my case, I think I got it because I tried the Gmail Notifier which had a really old version of GoogleUpdate which didn't know how to uninstall.
Those 2 damn things lingered in my services list too. For some reason I couldn't find this topic and the "sc delete" anywhere from simple bing searches and anywhere, so instead I just manually deleted google program files, deleted the task scheduled items, and then ran a manual regedit search for "googleupdate" and "gupdate" and "gupdatem" and manually nuked every folder which contained ONLY obvious refererences of being connected to google update (ie referencing GoogleUpdate, the exe, etc). At some point it must have broke the services, since both services was giving me multiple errors whenever I tried to do them. The description for them failed (2) and then one that prevented me from even right clicking them for properties (error 1058). Restarted and then all was good!
Did you turn them off in msconfig>Startup and msconfig>Services? You need to do that first so they'll uninstall everything and not leave behind reg keys which were running at the time of uninstall.
Nope, didn't do that (I have done it a while ago but I don't think so). It doesn't matter now anyways since they are nowhere to be found in msconfig. There wasn't as many registry things to delete anyways. It maybe took like 20 minutes. Most of it was just the waiting time between searching for entries. I was just posting back what I did in case anybody else had tried manually removing stuff or things weren't working out. Manually going through the registry will clean it for sure.
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