
It's important to mention that, although this issue will lead to the deactivation of the built-in Windows 10 Administrator, this account should not be used on a daily basis given that all Microsoft operating systems have it disabled by default since Windows 7. "Therefore, if you need to upgrade before the patch is released, please confirm that you can surely sign in with a user with administrative privileges other than the built-in Administrator, before you upgrade." "We are currently working on solving this problem, and at the moment we aim to release a patch in late January 2019," says Microsoft. Moreover, the issue arises only under certain conditions, when the built-in Administrator account is active, and there are other accounts on the machine which also have Administrator permissions.Ī patch to be released during late January Otherwise you would get the following error.A reactivated built-in Administrator account will be automatically deactivated when upgrading from Windows 10 version 1803 to Windows 10 version 1809 according to a post published on Microsoft's Japanese Technet blog.

In Vista/Windows 7, the above commands should be run from elevated administrator command prompt.

net stop wuauservĬommand for starting automatic updates service: net start wuauservĬommand for enabling the service: sc config wuauserv start= auto Errors IF you want to stop Automatic updates service then run the below command. If you want to disable Automatic updates service then run the below command.

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v AUOptions /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f

If you want to download updates but not install till the user acts on it then you can set the registy value to 3. reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v AUOptions /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f To enable automatic updates we need to set the registry value to 0.
