• Reader reports missing “Never check for updates” in Win7

    Posted on June 15, 2016 at 05:28 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Can anyone confirm this? It’s working fine on my machines.

    From JT:

    My Win 7 SP1 Windows Update settings have changed, just this morning as far as I can tell, and I suspect Microsoft because I’ve not installed any new software or made any sort of changes to the system.

    For years I’ve had Windows Update set to “don’t check”, but today that’s not even an option.

    After turning the computer on this morning it booted as normal, but after that there was a lot of download activity for quite a while and then I got an “updates are ready to install” message in the taskbar.

    I opened Windows Update and sure enough the June 2016 Windows and Office security updates were there to greet me.

    Surprised, and more than a bit annoyed, I checked my update settings.

    Guess what?  “Don’t check” is no longer an option.  You can see the three options that I now have in the attached graphic ‘Choose how Windows can install updates.png’.

    The three options now are:

    1. Install updates automatically (recommended)

    2. Download updates but let me choose whether to install them

    3. Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them

    Just thought you might find this interesting, and I’m also curious to know if other Win 7 users have been “hit”.

    Several of you asked for screenshots. Here’s what JT’s machine looks like:

    UPDATE: We’ve ascertained pretty definitively that this is a bizarre side-effect of a Group Policy change. For details, see the comments. Most people need never worry about it.

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