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Turning Off Auto Update in Chrome

Posted on 20. Apr, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in Chrome, Tips

While the autoupdate feature is a useful one in Chrome, there are reasons that some may want to turn it off.  If that is the case, this may be helpful for you to understand how to toggle this off. Google makes it possible to modify this with a little bit of operating system configuration, so let’s take a quick look at how you can change this feature to off, or to just set a time for it to go out and look for updates.

Windows

For Individual Users

1. Open up your registry editor (you can do this by running the regedit program) and head to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update.

2. You can set two different DWORD values here by creating them:
DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckbox – set this value to 1 if you want to disable the auto-updater; 0, if you want to enable it.

AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes – this will set a certain time that the updater looks for a new version (for example: 1440 to check for updates once a day)

For Networks

Networks that have deployed Chrome need to be using the group policy templates that Google provides. There is a specific guide called Google Update for the Enterprise that details this information, but once you get the template installed it looks pretty easy.

Mac

You’ll need to enter in commands via the terminal in order to make this work.

To disable the Updater, enter in the following command “$ defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0″. Setting the interval to 1 will turn it back on.

To set a time for the Updater to check, enter in this ”$ defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval <frequency>” where <frequency> is the elapsed time in seconds between update checks.

Have you turned autoupdate off? Why?

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