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System administrator not recognised
I have had Windows 7 Home Premium on my Dell Inspiron 1545 for over a year, and I have always had Windows Update download and notify me of updates, but let me choose whether and when to install them. However, in the recent week, it seems to have reset to automatic updates without letting me change back the settings.
Windows Update Settings in Control Panel has the whole Important Updates section greyed out, and at the top is a notification that says "Some settings are managed by your system administrator." However, I am the system administrator.
A bit of googling has resulted in a lot of suggestions to edit pgedit.msc, but Windows 7 Home Premium prevents me from doing this. I have been unable to find solutions other than the above.
I made another administrator account and thought maybe it would let me change the automatic update settings from there. It gave me the same message and a greyed out panel. Guest user does not have that section greyed out but, obviously, requires administrative rights in order to change the settings.
I understand that this situation is not a matter of life and death, but I would very much like to be able to disable the automatic updates. The other day, I was writing my thesis, and while the "Do you want to restart your computer now?" window popped up, I ended up rebooting the computer as I pressed space bar in the middle of the writing process.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.