Seeing How Windows Update is Suppose to Work

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I am asking how this should normally work.

I have been doing manual updates for awhile and am pretty happy to doing it this way since I am in control; just asking how it is suppose to work. I may have set too many registry keys on, hence blocked Windows Update (also run WUMgr 1.1b too). Windows Updates work when I download and install them manually, on my time table / schedule.

From the picture, I click on Windows Updates (I only recently discovered where “Windows Update” relocated to) and nothing happens.

It has picked up the email address used for Office Click-to-Run but I don’t know how this is suppose to work / affect Windows Updates. I am guessing someone here has some experience running it this way.

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If your connection was not set to metered, and you did not have custom settings blocking updates, Windows would check for updates often, maybe about daily, and would install monthly patches shortly after Patch Tuesday the 2nd Tuesday of each month.  It would attempt to do so at a time it thinks you are not using the computer much like at night.  It would also install other updates Microsoft marks as important, and if you don’t block them it could install driver updates for some hardware.  All of this can be configured in many ways.

If you had it set this way, when the Printer disaster happened, the first day the patches were out, if you had one of the affected printers it would have stopped working and may still not have fixed itself.

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KP

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Metered Connection is on; will have to try Windows Update with Metered Connection off.

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I tried Metered Connection off with DeferQualityUpdates set to zero and NoAutoUpdate to zero. Restarted and tried WindowsUpdate. No Go

See below for the Windows Registry keys, although the pictures shows DeferQualityUpdates and NoAutoUpdate set to one.

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What version of Windows, Home or Pro?
What registry settings have you changed?
Have you read our KB article? https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/2000016-guide-for-windows-update-settings-for-windows-10/

cheers, Paul

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PK’s article has gotten long and needs time to work through. I will get and post my Registry keys.

Generally I defer everything to the longest number of days, then install them when I am ready unless some urgency is needed.

I run WUMgr to see if I missed any updates, eg KB5005463 appears but is suggested to be deferred

Windows 10 20H2 64-bit Pro (Local Account login perhaps Office Click-to-Run is trying to change it)

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I have attached a picture of the WindowsUpdate keys and WindowsUpdate\AU keys

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With Pro and the registry settings you should have “metered” off.

Check in WUmgr that you have not disabled Windows Update.

Reboot and check WU again.

cheers, Paul

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