can't change windows update settings even though I am the administrator

Anonymous
2012-03-12T02:33:33+00:00

When I try to change the windows update settings, the options are greyed out and I get the message at the top "Some settings are managed by your system administrator."  However, I am the system administrator.  Creating another account and designating it the system administrator account does not help.

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Anonymous
2013-03-25T10:20:50+00:00

This was the only way I found to fix this:

Be very careful editing windows registry

For Windows Vista/7

Click Start and type regedit in the Search Programs and Files field. Then right-click on regedit in the programs list and select Run as Administrator.

Within the Registry Editor, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU.

On the right side of the window, locate AUOptions and NoAutoUpdate. Delete both of these registry keys.

Reboot

You should now be able to edit Windows Update

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-12-11T09:50:53+00:00

    This was the only way I found to fix this:

    Be very careful editing windows registry

    For Windows Vista/7

    Click Start and type regedit in the Search Programs and Files field. Then right-click on regedit in the programs list and select Run as Administrator.

    Within the Registry Editor, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU.

    On the right side of the window, locate AUOptions and NoAutoUpdate. Delete both of these registry keys.

    Reboot

    You should now be able to edit Windows Update

    I found this worked just perfect. thank you

    I also tired the creating an administrator account but that did not work

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-06T01:23:27+00:00

    Thank you for that info.

    Four weeks I've been trying to fix this on my own.

    Your advice was what I needed.

    At the end clicking on 'windows update' the only thing that popped up was 'disable windows update access'

    It told me to disable that, I would have to type in a '0' instead of the one which I did, Lo and behold I now have regained control of my updates .

    Kudos to your easy fix.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-05T21:20:34+00:00

    Thank you so much after so many weeks of research, I found this tip . I was a bit reluctant to try this as I am quite a novice and didn't want to wreck my computer, however hey presto this worked for me.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-09T19:02:00+00:00

    it worked for me also

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