

A search led to various possibilities, such as advice to use the taskkill command, perhaps in conjunction with a batch file that would run periodically. One possibility was to find a tool that would automatically shut down certain processes, such as these GoogleCrashHandler items. I wondered if there was another way to deal with it. One knowledgeable source advised that the GoogleCrashHandler.exe program itself could be safely removed from the system only after all Google software was uninstalled.

I was not looking forward to the task of determining which of these items would require me to uncheck that “usage statistics” box, or where the box was located. When I went to my Google dashboard, I saw a list of 29 different items. It seemed that I had more Google software installed than I realized.This advice was no doubt good, as far as it went. To get rid of it, so that it would not cause those memory errors anymore, many sources advised going into each Google product installed on my computer and unchecking those boxes, so as not to send usage statistics and crash reports to Google. To the contrary, another search yielded the impression that it was running on my system because I had clicked Yes, during the installation of Google software, when they asked if I would like to “Help make Google Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google.”

It seemed that GoogleCrashHandler was not essential. While VirtualBox appeared to account for the bulk of these error messages, apparently this error arose in other contexts as well. My particular problem came to my attention when VirtualBox stopped running with an error message: “Unable to allocate and lock memory.” A search led immediately to GoogleCrashHandler. The question was, what could I do about this? I had a problem, and it appeared to be caused by GoogleCrashHandler.exe and/or GoogleCrashHandler64.exe.
