Thursday, July 22, 2010

Enable Windows Update when Disabled by GP

Ever wanted to (temporarily) enable Windows Update when disabled by group policy?  Now you can with just a few quick reg hacks :’)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

NoWindowsUpdate=0

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WindowsUpdate

DisableWindowsUpdateAccess=0

Launch Windows Update and off you go…. Oh, and be sure the Windows Update service is started.

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