If you upgrade to the latest version, just be sure to remember to
disable those Google Earth automatic update services.
After my update to the lastest release, my firewall was
getting 'pestered' by the Google Earth update services
periodically...once an hour or more,
asking for 'access to the internet'....I have my firewall set
such that all accesses must be 'OK'd' by me with the
exception of a very few trusted processes.
In any case, I hadto go into the 'services' menu and
first shut those GE services down and then set them to
"Disabled" to keep them from interrupting me when
I'm 'flying'....I also shut down the windows scheduler process since I
don't need or use it for anything.
Paul