Updates Disabled - Really Disabled!!


  1. Posts : 16
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
       #1

    Updates Disabled - Really Disabled!!


    Hi all....

    Have just sorted an issue on a friends laptop, but noticed this while checking things out.... as this is Home Premium there is no group policy editor to try and enable updates through that, so if anyone knows the (possible) registry keys, or any other method to enable updates, I'd be really grateful....

    TIA
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  2. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #2

    Welcome
    Did you try the steps in this tutorial

    Windows Update Settings - Change
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  3. Posts : 16
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Yup, have been through all that first, but trying anything reports that updates have been disabled by system admin, are you on a network, etc, and that GPE has been used to disable updates.... never seen it before, even moreso since the laptop has only ever been on a home network, and GPE isn't available in Home Prem, which is why I thought registry settings somewhere would be the answer - can't imagine what caused it though...
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  4. Posts : 936
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, Mac OS X 10.6
       #4

    Disable your Firewall (temporarily) and try update.
    (Is it Lenovo? I saw this peculiar problem with only Lenovo)
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  5. Posts : 5,056
    Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
       #5

    See this tutorial. Download the reg file.

    Windows Update - Enable or Disable Access
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  6. Posts : 16
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Bill2 said:
    See this tutorial. Download the reg file.

    Windows Update - Enable or Disable Access
    Ah, fantastic, thanks....
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