How to turn off chrome browser auto update

Question

Tried solutions mentioned below

https://www.chromium.org/administrators/turning-off-auto-updates - but unsuccessful .

Tried solutions mentioned to delete the "update" folder but unable to find it in the location specified in the image below

Solution

There's no need to delete anything. Chromium updates or auto updates are handled by Google Omaha client aka Google update client. Open run and then type services.msc then disable these two Google update services:

Google update service (gupdate)
Google update service (gupdatem)

This will permanently disable update and auto updates in Chrome, as Chrome will try to invoke Google update service to check for updates and initiate the installation process too.

Update:

The above process will disable automatic updates but it is still possible to update Chrome from About Google Chrome page. Google Chrome invokes Google Omaha client and it will find the path of Google Omaha client from here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Google\Update\Clients\{430FD4D0-B729-4F61-AA34-91526481799D} If you change the this GUID then Google update client will always fail even if it's explicitly launched from Google Chrome. I would append a text to it rather than editing that GUID so that it would be easy to revert back.