Grrr... recently I was distressed to see a process running in my Windows Task Manager named GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe. Although I recall telling the various Google components on my computer to NOT do any automatic updating, clearly the Google Toolbar Notifier was running in the background.
After a fruitless search through the Windows Start menu and my System Tray, I did a web search and discovered that I needed to manually delete the program.
Here's how to do it:
1. Open the Windows Task Manager
2. Find the task named GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe, then right-click on it. From the menu choose "End Process" and confirm.
3. Open Windows Explorer and delete the entire folder named
C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier
That should do it!
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Here's another way using the toolbar's option dialog: http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=73961
thanks it work for me!!
Thank you Harry.
Thank you so much for posting this!
Thank You Harry!
When I try to kill it from taskbar, it says Opperation is not allowed. I'll try some other way.
Dan, in task manager, you must first click on show processes for all users and then you can disable the google toolbar notifier. Cheers
harry your awesome thanks
I don't recommend deleting the folder because do so creates orphaned dependencies. Instead remove the registry entry for GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe from :
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current\Version\Run
This prevents GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe from running upon every system startup without screwing up your system.
Regards,
Dave N.
I don't recommend deleting the folder because do so creates orphaned dependencies. Instead remove the registry entry for GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe from :
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current\Version\Run
This prevents GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe from running upon every system startup without screwing up your system.
Regards,
Dave N.
It hardly uses any processes, not much memory and stops your browser search page changing via malware, it's a good process to have running.
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