cant edit Window Update service

Question

I specifically stopped and disabled Window Update service a while ago because the update was filling my C drive up, then i tried enabling it again due to microsoft not working after stopping that service.

Attempting to edit the service propeties give me Access Denied error so i cant seem to edit the service to make microsoft store started working again, pls help

Answer 1

Hi,

I'm Sumit, here to answer your query at the Microsoft Community.

I think you used something like StopUpdates10 in addition that did this.

Press Windows+R keys on the keyboard, or Right-click Start on the Taskbar and choose Run.

Type regedit.exe

Press Enter.

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv

From the context menu, select 'New' and then choose 'DWORD Value'.

Please rename the newly created DWORD Value to DelayedAutostart.

Please set the existing Start DWORD key to 2 and DelayedAutostart to 0.

Hope that helps, and rely on us for any further inquiries. All the best.

Answer 2

Hi, i got to the "set the existing Start DWORD key to 2 and DelayedAutostart to 0" step

I assume this mean setting the value? i dont really want to break my pc so im just taking pre caution

Edit: it worked thank you