A simple way to disable G-Toolbar Auto-Updates

[Climbatiz]

read an old thread here where this was discussed and no realy good method came of it. anyways, was kinda desperate to block this myself because ever since 2.0.110+ when they "improved" the highlighting feature they removed its feature to highlight text like "/" and so on, i tried emailing them a couple times asking them to fix this back to the way it was (as is in 2.0.108) but seems like the support email is just some bs... anyways enough of that... here's what i did:

download the latest Toolbar version, once done installing open up regedit any export everything in "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google]", now exit regedit and open the regfile with notepad, in there delete the entry about "ButtonIds" and save the regfile.
now uninstall the toolbar and delete your "X:\Program Files\Google\" folder.
now disconnect from net, and install your disired version).
Once installed use some editor (i used HexWorkshop) to open the GoogleToolbar1 (or 2).dll, in there look for all instances of the version of the dll and then change it to whatever the latest toolbar version is, then save your modified dll into some folder.
now import the reg-files from the latest version. then open up your Task Manager and close explorer.exe, then in Task Mananger click "File>New Task>Browse...>" browse to where you saved the fixed GoogleToolbar file and copy it, now goto the Google folder in "Program Files" and delete the del entry there, once done with that paste the fixed one there.
now to get explorer back running (without having to reboot) right-click some folder and select Explore, this will make explorer.exe open up again.
well... i think that's all of it, so just get back online and i hope this works for ya ;}

[Climbatiz]

arg... how can this be? method only worked for a few days... gonna try and improve this somehow then

[Climbatiz]

well... seems to work doing all that and also editing the toolbar dll enough so it won't know where to update, not actually sure what exactly i changed or if it all was needed but if you wanna compare the changes or just use this version then you can download this fixed dll for v2.0.108:

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[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 10:42 pm (utc) on June 9, 2004]
[edit reason] No specifics please [/edit]

[Climbatiz]

no specifics? not sure what ya mean anyways if i can't serve the file then well... what i did was just to change every reference to toolbar.google.com to something else (like coolbar.google.com) this won't ferk up the toolbar in any way, so it only just won't resolve the host when it tries to update itself. so finally this "simple" method now works