Some settings are managed by my organization?

dukeofurl said:

A long while ago, when Win 10 privacy concerns were new, I ran some kind of utility that claimed to stop like 20 violations with one step.

I don't suppose you still have that utility? It may have had an option to undo all the changes it made...

Well, an in-place repair install may get windows update working for you. It keeps all your installed apps and files, so it won't do any harm to try. As a precaution, back up your files first though.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade | Windows 10 Tutorials

System restore points. And you'd then get 1 or more Windows updates, and system restore would probably be turned off.
I suspect it may not reverse those changes- it generally respects user configuration where this does not conflict with basic defaults such as restoring normal services.

Returning to your question about undoing changes:

Examples:

- easy revert to default. May help.


- more basic- reflects options chosen on installation and via Settings. no apparent overall reset to default.

Note: don't regard the (badly and confusingly worded) message as an error or problem.
I have it displayed, and have configured several things including Windows update. As I have Pro and am the admin, I'm also 'the organisation'

dalchina said:

Note: don't regard the (badly and confusingly worded) message as an error or problem.
I have it displayed, and have configured several things including Windows update. As I have Pro and am the admin, I'm also 'the organisation'

Same here, but I set mine through gpedit so it shows as configured there. It's odd that none of the changes the 'tool' has made show up in post #7 as any policy being configured. This doesn't square up with post #3 where dozens are shown as configured.

Bottom line is, does windows update work normally? Does it still automatically check for updates and does a manual check work? If so, I'd regard the red message as a 'non-problem'. If not, we're back to searching for that needle.

It may help if we knew precisely which 'tool' was used.

To reset policies set via the group policy editor see
Reset Local Group Policy Editor Settings to Default in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials
noting

This will only apply to reset Group Policy objects set in the Local Group Policy Editor, and not objects set manually in Registry Editor instead.

There's also this:
Reset Local Security Policy Settings to Default in Windows | Windows 10 Tutorials

The Windows Update policies are under here:

(scroll down to Windows Update)

Having reset them, you can manually check the Windows Update policies, then try
- the Windows Update Troubleshooter


and if ok, try manually running Windows Update and report results.

After that there's
Reset Windows Update in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials

and then Tweaking.com's free cautious repair tool with a Windows Update repair option.

It's odd that none of the changes the 'tool' has made show up in post #7 as any policy being configured. This doesn't square up with post #3 where dozens are shown as configured.

- agreed.

Given the restriction in Brink's tutorial about policies applied by registry editing, I wonder if perhaps those detected in Settings (#3) were so applied?