How the hell do you stop Google updater loading with Windows? I've disabled it in Msconfig but the bloody thing still loads with Windows.
I don't use Google toolbars so I can only assume it's for Google Earth.. There are no options there to turn updater off.

Any ideas? I'm just running CCleaner to see if that can make a difference.

EDIT

CCleaner made no difference.

This might be a dumb question but why do you want to turn it off? Is it causing you problems?

It uses precious memory and clock cycles. Add in all the separate updaters, like Adobe, Google, Sun etc. they all take up space and clock cycles.

If you are on an older machine, that makes a heck of a difference - most of our work machines have 256MB RAM and a 1.2Ghz processor, so anything taking up unnecessary cycles is a bad thing. Also, as administrator, you want to make sure updates are fully tested, before they are rolled out to all machines. Nothing worse than some machines stopping working, because they have an untested patch which messes everything up.

And, in a corporate environment they all bang the internet connection at the same time.

Ohhh

I hadn't even thought about the work side... I was looking at it from a home users viewpoint. Thanks for the info' guys.

Have a look at autoruns it gives you a load more flexibility than msconfig. I suspect the whatever google app you run checks to see if it's still enabled and then reenables it though.

Delete the updater .exe from Program Files, then run the registry checker thing in CCleaner. It just removes all links to that file.

Worked for me.