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I am not sure. See for yourself: Enable or Disable Pause Updates Feature in Windows 10
I am not sure. See for yourself: Enable or Disable Pause Updates Feature in Windows 10
After downloading and inspecting the patch files on the "Enable or Disable" page, I suspect that these keys don't even exist in a shipped system until the patch files themselves create them.
As a quality check, I looked at the registry on the machine that is not having this problem. It doesn't even have a WindowsUpdate key folder on it. I double-checked System, and all of the versions of everything were identical, the only difference being the computer name, device ID, date installed, and size of the RAM.
I also noticed that on the VM that has the problem, just the act of going to sleep and waking up will set the update pause on. I can see it change in front of me as the OS is waking itself up.
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Hi, I didn't see this transaction until just now since it ended up on a previous page, sorry.
I don't have Metered Connection set on either machine, and I use only local PC accounts. I don't even own a "cloud-based" MS account. I do have "Download update from other PCs on my network" on, but that's true on the machine that doesn't have this problem as well (plus, it's very rare that I have both VMs active at the same time).
About five minutes ago, I found the culprit.
As I mentioned in the first post, I run W10 as a VM under Parallels. Parallels has a configuration option called Maintenance that does:
It was checked. So Parallels did some kind of magic to suspend the standard Windows updates unless I invoked them by hand. I had no idea this option was enabled; guess I enabled it long ago and then forgot about it. I never thought of looking at the Parallels configuration options to solve this problem.
Thanks to all who helped with suggestions.