Turn On or Off Windows Updates for Microsoft Products in Windows 10  

Brink,

I see the same as you. The Registry key is a marker of the UI control not an alternative method of control. I was only after a marker so I got what I needed.

In How to enable Windows Updates for other MS Products for All users - TechNet I found a reference to a PowerShell script for controlling this setting [but the only script that had been referred to in that discussion had been a VB script].

@Kari includes a PS command for making this setting in para 2.1 of Update and Upgrade Windows 10 using PowerShell but when I tried it the script changed neither the UI checkbox nor the Registry key [despite showing the same responses as Kari illustrates].

Denis

SM03 said:

Any reg tweak found yet for this for latest win versions?

None yet.

Jackie,

Thanks for the pointer to the PS version. I have also just tested it [it needs elevated permission] and it works both ways - On & Off.

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@Brink - perhaps you could add this as an option in the tutorial?
From How to Opt-In and Detect to Microsoft Update for other Microsoft products using Powershell – Jay Tuckey’s Blog

PSWU-MSUpdate-On.ps1 {Run as Admin}

Code:

$ServiceManager = New-Object -ComObject "Microsoft.Update.ServiceManager"
$ServiceManager.ClientApplicationID = "My App"
$NewService = $ServiceManager.AddService2("7971f918-a847-4430-9279-4a52d1efe18d",7,"")

PSWU-MSUpdate-Off.ps1 {Run as Admin}

Code:

$ServiceManager = New-Object -ComObject "Microsoft.Update.ServiceManager"
$ServiceManager.RemoveService("7971f918-a847-4430-9279-4a52d1efe18d")

Denis

JackieMackie said:

Someone in the comments of the blog where I found this PS, said you must also have internet for it to work.

Jackie,

I can see the comments that you refer to but I do not know why they had problems.

I've just tested it with internet on and with internet off and it works every time. I monitored its setting by looking in
- Settings, Updates, Advanced options
and in
- Registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Services\7971F918-A847-4430-9279-4A52D1EFE18D
ValueName RegisteredWithAU
Data 0 {Off} or 1 {On}

Note that this Registry key is only an indicator and cannot be used to control the item

And I then successfully ran a PS procedure that fails if the MSUpdate setting is off.


Once again, thanks for a very useful discovery.

Denis

Pipppero2007 said:

Hello,

I am the only one that after the 2004 update, cannot uncheck the "Windows Updates for Microsoft Products"?

Thank you

isidroco said:

That setting doesn't work since 2004 update. No matter what you do to the switch it keeps turning itself on.

It's still working for me on my Windows 10 version 2004 systems, so there may be some glitch or something on your systems.

Do you have any 3rd party tweaking programs installed with its own setting that may be overriding it?