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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
"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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