• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to footer
  • News
  • Chrome
  • Chromebook
  • Chromecast
Chrome Story

Chrome Story

Chrome OS Made Simple!

  • Start Here
  • YouTube
  • About
  • Contact
Home / Google Chrome / How To Turn Off Google Chrome Auto Update

How To Turn Off Google Chrome Auto Update

September 21, 2010 by Dinsan Francis 8 Comments



One of the most attractive features of Google Chrome is its silent updates option which makes your life easier by managing your software update without bothering you for anything related to it.

However, this cool feature can create problems too. For example, if a company decides to install Google Chrome on all computers and ask all its employees to start using it, we will have a situation where thousands of Google Chrome Installations in a single office trying to check for updates and downloading updates. This will create problems for network admins there for sure!

So, here is how you can disable this feature, from Google’s help page.

Turning off Auto-Updates on Windows

To turn off auto-updates of Google Chrome on Windows, you need to instruct Google Update to not update it.  To do this, you can either:

  1. Use the Google Update ADM templates provided on this page or as described in this article.
  2. Set the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update\AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes to the REG_SZ (string) value of “0”

More information about Google Update’s group policy support is here.

Turning off Auto-Updates on Mac

Note: By turning off auto update, you miss the opportunity to get updated to the latest security updates. You will need to keep a close eye on Google Chrome releases from time to time and keep your set of installations secure. I personally do not recommend disabling Google Chrome auto update.

  • Facebook
  • Reddit
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • WhatsApp
  • Pinterest
  • Pocket
  • Telegram

Related

Filed Under: Google Chrome

We Make Videos Too!

Footer

Getting Started with your Chromebook

Chrome OS and Chromebook User Guide

Free Updates via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 3,249 other subscribers

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • RSS

Copyright © 2019 · Revolution Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

Chrome Story Cookies Policy

Our Website uses cookies to improve your experience. Please visit our Chrome Story’s Cookie Policy page for more information about cookies and how we use them.

Close
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.