Rant: Google screwed up with Google Toolbar 4 auto-update (mild language warning)

[12Wonder]

Originally Posted by 12Wonder

Anyway, I found what seems to be a solution for preventing autoupdates of the Google Toolbar.

Update - I have found that the above does NOT prevent auto updates of the Google Toolbar, after all.

BTW, Google Desktop is even worse. Google Desktop self-installed on a few computers here during Java updates, resulting in sudden and dramatically dead-slow performance. As soon as all Google elements -- Google Desktop, Google Toolbar, etc. -- were completely uninstalled and all related registry entries deleted, the pc's sped up to their usual fast performance again.