Automatic Updates configuration

[Guest]

Hi All,

I am running W2K SP4 with all the latest patches etc, at least WU can't find
anything to update. Anyway, my question is, why does Start > Setting >
Control Panel > Automatic Update, have all 4 check boxes Grayed out ?

Thanks in advance,
Robert

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Hi All,

I am running W2K SP4 with all the latest patches etc, at least WU can't find
anything to update. Anyway, my question is, why does Start > Setting >
Control Panel > Automatic Update, have all 4 check boxes Grayed out ?

Thanks in advance,
Robert

Hi,

See if you find a registry value NoWindowsUpdate or
DisableWindowsUpdateAccess that is set to 1.

Start/Run ==> regedit.exe

Under the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer

delete the value "NoWindowsUpdate" if it exist.


Under the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Windows Update

delete the value "DisableWindowsUpdateAccess" if it exist.


Under the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Group Policy Objects\LocalUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\Windows Update

delete the value "DisableWindowsUpdateAccess" if it exist.

If you did any changes, log off and on again.


If the above didn't help:

Do a registry search (in regedit.exe, be sure to have "My Computer"
selected when starting each search)) for registry values with name

NoWindowsUpdate

and
DisableWindowsUpdateAccess

and
NoAutoUpdate

and delete if found.

Note that if your computer is member of an Active Directory domain,
and this this is a policy set with Group Policy, the registry
values will re-appear at next GPO-refresh.

 

[Guest]

Hi Torgeir,

Unfortunately none of this helped, I did have the following which I deleted

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000000

But the check boxes remain Grayed out.

However, I think you have nailed it as I only have this on my office
machines, on my home machine the boxes are not Grayed out, so I guess it's
down to my company's "Group policy".

Thanks,
Robert