as the parent of a 5 year-old and a 1.5 year-old, i could not agree with you more. the moment we disallowed the disney channel (just playhouse disney -- aimed at preschoolers) and only allowed pbs, there was a noticeable attitude change in my older son.
Find the service name in the Windows Service Browser (find googleupdate in the service list and double-click. It'll be named googleupdate followed by a bunch of random characters). Open a DOS prompt.
Enter this command: INSTSRV REMOVE
That will delete the service, then you can delete the GoogleUpdate folder from your Program Files.
This will work for any other unwanted service as well.
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as the parent of a 5 year-old and a 1.5 year-old, i could not agree with you more. the moment we disallowed the disney channel (just playhouse disney -- aimed at preschoolers) and only allowed pbs, there was a noticeable attitude change in my older son.
Find the service name in the Windows Service Browser (find googleupdate in the service list and double-click. It'll be named googleupdate followed by a bunch of random characters). Open a DOS prompt. Enter this command: INSTSRV REMOVE That will delete the service, then you can delete the GoogleUpdate folder from your Program Files.
This will work for any other unwanted service as well.
The command is:
INSTSRV servicename REMOVE