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Removing Google Desktop Icon - GoogleDesktop.exe

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Removing Google Desktop Icon - GoogleDesktop.exe

✍: Guest

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Symptom: Google desktop icon showing in the system start bar. It takes a good amount memory. If use Windows Task Manager, you will see:

GoogleDesktop.exe 4,444K
GoogleDesktopCrawl.exe 4,788K
GoogleDesktopIndes.exe 7,140K

HijackThis Report:
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Google Desktop Search]
"C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe"
/startup

To do:

1. Went to Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs, and removed GoogleDesktop.
2. Restarted the computer.
Result: GoogleDesktop is gone.

2008-12-02, ≈10🔥, 0💬

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