Google Updater Should be Friendlier

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Re-opening bug 41 as requested.
http://code.google.com/p/omaha/issues/detail?id=41
Last comment:
> Feel free to reopen the bug if you can actually isolate
> Omaha doing something unfriendly to the system :)
Reopened. :)
because I have evidence that the previous answer is incorrect.

This setup.exe annoyed my dad again a couple of days ago so he installed 
Process Explorer.  Then the setup.exe happened again yesterday.  Here's what 
Process Explorer reported:

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GoogleUpdate.exe        GoogleUpdate.exe        3172            7,452 K 3,472 K 
Google Installer       Google Inc.
22.0.1229.94_22.0.1229.92_chrome_updater.exe         
22.0.1229.94_22.0.1229.92_chrome_updater.exe    2948            536 K   156 K
setup.exe  setup.exe       3944    66.15   236,832 K       424,276 K       
Google Chrome       Google Inc.

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Clearly this setup.exe is coming from Google with Chrome.

The problem is that setup.exe is running at "Priority - Normal - 8".

Also, immediately after he told me about this, I asked him to check 
about:version.  It reports Google Chrome   22.0.1229.94 (Official Build 161065) 
m, which is the stable update we pushed yesterday.

This evidence (the signature of setup.exe, the fact that immediately afterward 
my father's Chrome browser running an updated version) indicates that this is a 
google process.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mpearson@chromium.org on 11 Oct 2012 at 10:41

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Further details:

My experience matches this users, and, when leaving the process unmolested for 
an extended period of time, it appears to complete and chrome reports it's been 
updated in the UI, leading me to believe even more strongly that this is, in 
fact, part of the Chrome update.

I wonder if this is perhaps some embedded interior installer launched from 
within the Google update proper? 

Note that my machine is quite slow (It's a legacy XP machine) and so I'm sure 
my problems are exacerbated by it's slow-ness. I have caught my windows 7 
behaving more slowly while updating chrome, but the effect is much less 
pronounced, and very short-lived.

Original comment by keanan.s...@gmail.com on 8 Nov 2012 at 8:33

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Main problem from my perspective is that these updates are completely silent. I 
expect my computer to be less responsive when it's performing some software 
install/update, but when I don't even know about it (much less initiated or 
approved it) I just find my computer is struggling for no good reason.

Experienced this multiple times on Windows 7 with Chrome + Drive installed. Not 
sure if exacerbated by having many long-lived tabs open in Chrome, but 
sometimes the updates are very intensive on my system - i.e. sometimes to the 
point where I can only see GoogleUpdate.exe chewing up CPU in task manager, but 
the system is otherwise virtually unresponsive.

Original comment by uk.dam...@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2014 at 4:25