Any idea why the DisableOSUpgrade is missing in my windows 7 registry?

Hi folks,

I have been using the excellent reg edit tutorial on this site to disable upgrading to 10

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...s-7-8-1-a.html

I like to go manually into the registry without downloading the app to do it, and it has worked well on one my windows 7 partitions.

However on my other windows 7 partition I cant see the
DisableOSUpgrade DWORD

in the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

Any ideas why it is missing, I am sure I am logged on as admin and also have enabled hidden files and folders?

The size of that partition is 60GB.

Thanks very much for any suggestions.
Joe

You could right click and create a new DWORD "DisableOSUpgrade" in that location and then set it to 1 (this is what the script to disable it from the tutorial does anyway)

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Created by: Shawn Brink
; https://www.tenforums.com
; Tutorial: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/22322-upgrade-windows-10-update-enable-disable-windows-7-8-1-a.html


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]
"DisableOSUpgrade"=dword:00000001

Thank you all for replies. That has worked a dream, in windows 7 for me, Thank you Shawn.

Joe