How to turn off Windows 7 Automatic Updates?

Question

I'm using Windows 7 Enterprise and I need to turn off the Automatic Updates feature, but don't know how.

The "Change Automatic Updates Setting" has been deactivated with a greyed out look, as seen in the attached screen capture:

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 14 '11 at 07:23

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Yeah, you are on a domain. You'll need to have a chat with who ever sets the Group policy in your Domain.

I have the same thing and I have domain privileges.

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answered Jul 14 '11 at 07:23

surfasb

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 03 '20 at 08:31

Type: “regedit”
Hit Enter

Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

Find AUOptions. You can change the values from 1 through 5.

1. Download updates but let me choose whether to install them
2. Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them
3. Download updates but let me choose whether to install them
4. Install updates automatically
5. Enable the option box to choose manually

(source http://mkncreations.com/site/2012/09/fix-windows-7-update-settings-disabled-grayed-out/)

How to turn off Windows 7 Automatic Updates?

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