Solved Missing option in Windows update

[belikexp]

I' m missing the setting for Give me updates for Microsoft products.
Is there setting for this?

 

[kegobeer]

Do you have any other Microsoft products installed, like Office?

 

[belikexp]

Yes I do. Windows 2003 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

 

[kegobeer]

I believe that after I installed Office, I went to the Office website and clicked on the Microsoft Update link. IIRC, I was prompted to install the Microsoft update; after that, Windows started checking for Microsoft product updates.

 

[belikexp]

Here's a link that answers my question why the other options in Windows Update are missing.

Windows Update won't show all his setting's options!

 

[belikexp]

I think I fixed it by

How to obtain the latest version of the Windows Update Agent to help manage updates on a computer

I installed windowsupdateagent30-x64.exe and now all the options have reappeared.

And now I see lots of updates.

 

[richc46]

if you reinstalled them, make sure that you activate again. If this was mentioned, I apologize, I just read through quickly.

 

[nonpasaran]

It's been too long time but maybe somebody can google this
Here is the solution;

 

[asilayasi40]

*solved*

***PLEASE READ***:

This fix is for people that are familiar with registry editing using Regedit only. If you do not have experience using Regedit, I recommend that you do some reading first as you could cause some serious problems on your computer if you modify the wrong keys or values.

1-Close all running Microsoft Office components.
2-Open Regedit
3-Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General
4-Modify the "ShownOptIn" value from 1 to 0
5-Launch a Microsoft Office component, it will give you the option to download the updates, make sure you select it.
6-Done. If you go back to "Windows Update", then "Change Settings", you will see the "Microsoft Update" and "Software notifications" sections are available again (until the Microsoft Update check box is unchecked again).

 

[ron7000]

it was this pop up

 

[ron7000]

eh it might not have worked. now i'm not seeing office in the check settings windows again.

 

[Tookeri]

If you mean in the Windows Update settings, note that the option is called Microsoft Update and not Office.

 

[pietpeuk]

Thank you, asilayasi40

 

[psptina]

***PLEASE READ***:

This fix is for people that are familiar with registry editing using Regedit only. If you do not have experience using Regedit, I recommend that you do some reading first as you could cause some serious problems on your computer if you modify the wrong keys or values.

1-Close all running Microsoft Office components.
2-Open Regedit
3-Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General
4-Modify the "ShownOptIn" value from 1 to 0
5-Launch a Microsoft Office component, it will give you the option to download the updates, make sure you select it.
6-Done. If you go back to "Windows Update", then "Change Settings", you will see the "Microsoft Update" and "Software notifications" sections are available again (until the Microsoft Update check box is unchecked again).

Thank you!! This fixed it for me! ...finally!

 

[Tom Toolman]

Thanks for that fix

The registry fix did the trick on this system. Thanks!

 

[SGvagon]

I had the same problem. After installing Office 2003 PRO, Windows Update doesn't search any update for Office 2003 and the checkbox Microsoft update was missing too.
I just installed another app from Microsoft, Silverlight player and voala. Checkbox showed up and Windows update searched all Office 2003 updates .

 

[bylmy]

I had the same problem. After installing Office 2003 PRO, Windows Update doesn't search any update for Office 2003 and the checkbox Microsoft update was missing too.
I just installed another app from Microsoft, Silverlight player and voala. Checkbox showed up and Windows update searched all Office 2003 updates .

Wow, Silverlight player did trick!! Thanks a lot.