Versions

4, 1, 509, 1944	95.29%
2, 0, 301, 1654	4.71%

GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe has 2 known versions, the most recent one is 4, 1, 509, 1944. GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. By adding a startup entry to the run registry key, the file will be executed when the user logs into Windows. The average file size is about 52.86 KB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Google Inc by the certification authority VeriSign. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is less than 0.01%, the average private memory consumption is about 3.75 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 5.09 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 10.27 KB per minute for reads and 39 Bytes per minute for writes.

Google Toolbar Notifier is a Windows service that runs in the background to make sure that Google is your default search engine and is automatically installed on your PC when you install many of the Google applications such as the Google Toolbar or Google Chrome. This windows service is simply designed to make sure the default search provider is not changed.