Sometimes you don’t want to wait/rely to your WSUS environment for specific updates.
But when you try to install updates manually you might notice the following message :
It’s easy to go around this, you copy/paste the following code into a reg file :
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] “NoDriveTypeAutoRun”=dword:00000095 “NoWindowsUpdate”=dword:00000000 “NoAutoUpdate”=dword:00000001
When you apply the above regfile and go to windows updates you notice that updates are possible again :
