Purpose: GoogleDesktop.exe is part of Google Desktop which is an application the brings Google search capabilities to a person's local PC. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you've viewed, and more. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop helps you locate your local information and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. Google Desktop is generally an application that a person intentionally loads on their system because they see value in what it does. It can be disabled to save resources, however, terminating or disabling it will prevent the indexing of files and significantly impairs the usability of the program.

googledesktop.exe is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. No action required.

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.46%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 8 MB