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We hope to help address concerns users have voiced around Google Update running as a continuous process. Until now, Google Update would always run in the background, functioning primarily as a reliable scheduler performing update checks at periodic time intervals. With today's release, Google Update now uses the Windows Task Scheduler to only run at periodic intervals. We have worked hard to ensure that automatic updates work just as reliably, and that our users are just as safe and secure as before.There are a couple of details that we want to mention. First, in a very small number of cases when Google Update determines that the Windows Task Scheduler or Service mechanisms are not working as expected, we have added in fallback mechanisms that cause Google Update to begin running as a continuous process again to ensure users are still receiving updates to their Google software. Second, if you opted in to sending anonymous usage statistics and crash reports to Google for a particular Google application, we will run a process in the background called GoogleCrashHandler.exe. GoogleCrashHandler.exe is responsible for reporting crashes to Google when they occur in your Google product.
