Braveupdater.exe are taking up too much resources. Even after uninstalling the entire brave software

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Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. It’s just happened recently that the braveupdater.exe are using too much resources. It tries to update, and never finished.

  2. Even after uninstalling, the braveupdater.exe process still presist.

  3. After deleting the updater file and the rest of the file in the folder, it still running. Killing the task doesn’t help much. It still reappears.

Expected result: the updater finishes its job without causing any lag or at least not for too long.

Brave Version( check About Brave): latest, don’t know exactly. it’s from my friend’s computer. He refused to let me remote using TeamViewer.

Additional Information:

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@AriKnight19

Two methods for un-installing Brave Browser, when working toward making a new installation of BB:

‘Brave is Not working after update - #5 by Mattches’

‘https://crystalidea.com/uninstall-tool’ ← used successfully by a member of Brave Community, last summer (2025).

Re-examine, that you made sure that Brave Browser was not set to be the default browser; and, you made sure that Brave Browser was not set to run at startup of your Windows OS computer; and, after uninstalling Brave Browser, you completely Exited / Quit everything and restarted your Windows OS computer?

And, after thoroughly uninstalling and then restarting the computer, you visited various locations where Brave Browser might have been installed:

For the system level installation of Brave Browser, the brave.exe file will be at:

64 architecture
"C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe"

x86 architecture
"C:\Program Files(x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe"

For the user level installation of Brave Browser (you DO NOT have administrative privileges, during installation), the brave.exe file will be at:
"C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe"

Making sure again, that the parent - the \BraveSoftware\ directory - has been deleted from all those possible installation locations (and Recycle Bin / Trash emptied).

Followed by another restart of the computer.

Does the issue, then continue?