To avoid the Auto update in Chrome browser in VM window machine.

Question

Hi Microsoft team,

Objective:

To avoid the Auto update in Chrome browser in VM window machine, we have followed the below step

1. Disable the "Google update service"(gupdate and gupdatem) in Services app in windows matching

Purpose of Google Chrome:

We have Selenium script is running as 24/7 in our windows VM machine through chrome browser.

So to avoid the version mismatch of browser and chrome driver we have set the "startup type" as "Disabled" in the "Google update service".

Problem Faced:

But after some day, We planned to update the Chrome browser with latest version. When we open the browser and it is running in the Latest version

And we have checked that in "Services" desktop app the "Google update service" both "gupdate" and "gupdatem" are displayed in the List grid "Disabled" in "Startup Type" column.

But when we open the corresponding service's properties it its showing the "Automatic (Delayed Start)"

So, Please let us know the cause and guide us to fix this issue.

Service status image.png

Answer 1

Hello there,

A service marked as Automatic (Delayed Start) will start shortly after all other services designated as Automatic have been started.

Try the below registry and see if that helps. Set the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update\AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes to the REG_DWORD value of "0".

A delayed start has two major components.

1. Delayed services wait to start until all of the Automatic services have started
2. Initially, the threads for delayed services are set to the lowest priority.

This dramatically reduces the slowdown in responsiveness in user sessions that the services might otherwise cause, because their disk I/O, CPU time, and pace of allocating RAM all ramp up at a more gradual slope than they would otherwise. It helps to avoid the classic "type password then wait for 2 minutes" login that we all hate after a fresh boot.

Hope this resolves your Query !!

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