Disable Google Updater Agent from Mac Startup

2010-01-05

Disabling the startup item can be done by deleting the file

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist or

adding a new "Disabled" property to it (in case you want to keep the file):

<key>Disabled</key>
<true/>

Your plist file should look like this when disabled:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Disabled</key>
        <true/>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.google.keystone.root.agent</string>
        <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
        <string>Aqua</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
          <string>//Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/GoogleSoftwa
reUpdateAgent</string>
          <string>-runMode</string>
          <string>ifneeded</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>StartInterval</key>
        <integer>3523</integer>
        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
        <string>/dev/null</string>
        <key>StandardOutPath</key>
        <string>/dev/null</string>
</dict>
</plist>