VISTA AND AUTO UPDATE 1

[vipersl65]

I have a personal laptop that has Vista ultimate. My mistake is used it to connect to my company's network and now I cannot do automatic windows update.

help....thanks

 

[linney]

What do you mean by "connect"? Did join it to a Domain and pick up some Group Policies from the Domain?

What error message are you getting?

 

[vipersl65]

I VPN to my corporate network. No, my Vista laptop is not part of the domain but someone the IT team pushed down a Group Policy that disabled the auto update. Before I VPN, my laptop auto update works flawlessly

 

[linney]

Have you checked the Windows Update settings in your Group Policy?

Look under Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows Update, look in both User and Computer Configuration.


You could try System Restore.

Check to see if there is any problem with the Windows Update Service.

Have a look in the Event Viewer.

Try this workaround.

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

and find the key named "NoWindowsUpdate" and delete that key. Backup (export) this key first.

You may also need to change the access permissions on this branch:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate

to that of "full access"

326686 - You Cannot Use Any Windows Update Features

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326686&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

 

[vipersl65]

Linney, Thanks so much for that registry hack. You DA MAN!

 

[lhuegele]

If your machine wasn't part of the network, how was your IT department able to push out a global policy to it?