Join 350,000 subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles. Toggle the policy override state to “Enabled”. Further, if you’re in a corporate environment, please double check with your IT department before proceeding. You can call on the Group Policy Editor by opening the Run dialog (Win+R) and typing in: gpedit.msc. If you are one of those people, the two methods mentioned above may come in handy to you. Available in Google Update version 1.2.145.5 Looking to deploy Chrome Enterprise for remote workers? You can manage Google Update settings using the Group Policy Management Editor. There are two pertinent questions to address in this section. Features: * Refresh pages after a set number of seconds. Sometimes, updates might take longer. Specifies whether a specific app can be installed using Google Update. Or, you can pin the browser to a specific version, such as 79.0.3945.88, so that computers only update to that version. However, to minimize the total bandwidth used for updates, we recommend that you don’t delay updates. The server can ignore it, depending on load and several other reasons. If your edition of Windows is lower than Pro (e.g. For example, if you set the Auto-update check period override policy to change the minimum time period between update checks to 480 minutes, then each hour Google Update checks to see if the last update check was more than 480 minutes ago. You can also turn off auto-updates if your organization wants to push Chrome Browser updates manually. Jason Fitzpatrick is the Editor in Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek's sister site focused life hacks, tips, and tricks. By running earlier versions of Chrome Browser, you will expose your users to known security issues. Windows Vista/7/8 and Windows Server 2008 (and above) users need to look in Administrative Templates -> Classic Administrative Templates (ADM) -> Google -> Google Update. Doing this will set Chrome to automatically check for updates on when launched. Method 2 Updating Google Chrome on iOS If you select this one, Chrome will check for and install updates automatically, and also install updates when the manual update chekcer is used. [Send][url=https://tools.google.com/service/update2][request=>?xml...—Google Update sent a request to Google's servers to see if any updates are available. If the computer already has the Chrome Browser installed for an individual user (in that user’s profile directory), that installation will not be modified by the Chrome Enterprise installer. You can also switch to manual updates only or automatic silent updates if, again, you have a pressing need to do so. When the menu appears, click on the About Google Chrome menu item. Chrome’s Enterprise installer (MSI) installs Chrome for all users of a computer. Similarly, you can set an update suppression period (Time period in each day to suppress auto-update check) and each hour Google Update checks if the current time is within the suppression period, if it is then no update is performed and Google Update waits for the next hourly run and checks again. How to Fix (and Adjust) Automatic Updating in Google Chrome, check out our SysInternals Pro series instead, How to Shoot Photos in ProRAW on an iPhone, How to Use the Assistant Driving Mode in Google Maps, How to Backup and Restore Emails in Microsoft Outlook, How to Enable Photoshop’s Old Undo Keyboard Shortcuts, How to Clear Chrome Browsing Data With a Keyboard Shortcut, © 2020 LifeSavvy Media. Next, we’re going to fire up the Windows Group Policy Editor and install the custom Google Chrome template pack so we can successfully change the policies without touching the Windows Registry. The request contains details, such as current app version and platform. Get more done with the new Google Chrome. This policy only affects installations that use Google Update or Google Installer. … The auto-updating procedure is performed by Google Update, which is based on the open-source Omaha project. While you can potentially fix the problem by diving into the Windows Registry and altering some registry keys and deleting others, we’re not going to instruct you using that method. Download a copy of the template here (direct link to file). If you altered this setting in the previous policy change, make sure it matches here. Updates from a major version to a later nonconsecutive major version usually require a new complete installation. The Applications folder in Group Policy contains all the Google apps that use Google Update. Great, let’s fix Chrome. He has over a decade of experience in publishing and has authored thousands of articles at Review Geek, How-To Geek, and Lifehacker. To update Chrome, simply start the program and click on the wrench icon () in the upper right-hand corner.