Security Center can’t change your automatic update settings in Windows Vista

Jul

2008

Security Center can’t change your automatic update settings in Windows Vista

microsoft A lot of people are experiencing a weird issue while trying to update their Windows Vista with SP1. In fact, the operating system could nag you that important updates are available, but when you try to update the system through the “check for updates” button you get back the following message: “The Automatic Updates feature is not configured on this computer”. After that a button to enable automatic updates is provided, but once you press it, you are faced with this new message: “Security Center can’t change your automatic update settings”. At this point, no matter what you do, you won’t manage to download the updates successfully. Here is the hack to fix the issue:

Click Start.
Click Run… (if Run is not present on the bar, find out how to activate it by reading this article).
Type the following commands, and press Enter after each of them (also wait for the window saying the operation was performed successfully to appear)

regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 atl.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll

Tags: hack, sp, update, Vista

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10 Comments to “Security Center can’t change your automatic update settings in Windows Vista”

Janmik Santos Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 7:18 am

It did not work for me. 4 out of the 5 failed to load. Automatic update still doesn’t work. Gets error 80070424 when I try to do so manually. Appreciate alternative solutions, thanks.
Web Talk Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 8:00 am

Hi there Janmik and thanks for writing to Web Talk. Yes, I have other solutions for you. Try this:
1) Click Start.
2) Click Run…
3)In the open box, type this command: net.exe stop wuauserv
4) Press OK
5) Do the same for the following commands:
regsvr32.exe wuapi.dll
regsvr32.exe wups.dll
regsvr32.exe wuaueng.dll
regsvr32.exe wucltui.dll
regsvr32.exe MSXML3.dll
regsvr32.exe qmgr.dll
regsvr32.exe qmgrprxy.dll
net.exe start wuauserv
6) Turn off and on your computer

Here is a second solution:
1) Click Start
2) In the Search bar type regedit and hit Enter
3) Locate this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv
4) If you see a DeleteFlag value, delete it.

Here is a third solution:
1) Click Start.
2) Click Run…
3) Type the folowing commands and hit Enter after each of them:
%SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\REGSVR32.EXE
%SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\WUAUENG.DLL

Here is new solution:
1) Click Start
2) Click Run…
3) Type services.msc, and click OK.
4) In the Startup type box, click Manual, and then click Apply.
5) Click the Log On tab, and then verify that the service BITS is enabled in every hardware profile that is listed.
6) If the Service is not enabled or Started, click the hardware profile, click Enable, and then click Apply.
7) Now, click the General tab, and hit Start.
8 ) If the service is OK then:
9) Click Start.
10) Click Run…
11) In the Run Box, type Regsvr32 QMGR.DLL and hit OK
12) In case it doesn’t work, try to download and install the BITS service again here

Try also to read this article here
Manzar Says:
September 26th, 2008 at 9:54 am

Thanks a lot , it really got me out o the trouble.
Rictenwheel25 Says:
November 15th, 2008 at 4:43 am

I have the exact same issue
however none of the fixes works for me… is there any other way to resolve this issue or am i going to have to reinstall windows vista to resolve…and what exactly causes this issue…pls HELP !
Web Talk Says:
November 15th, 2008 at 10:13 am

Sorry Rictenwheel25 but I am clueless as far as your issue is concerned. I gave my best shots for this article but if you still are experiencing this issue I really dont know how to help you. I will search Google a little bit to see if I can come with other solutions…
gabriel Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 12:37 am

Hi everybody , this started to happen to me when I installed windows vista sp2 rc1 …….
RudeDawg&theDweebz Says:
August 25th, 2009 at 1:54 am

There is some sort of Trojan that causes this and it usually is a result of a downloaded installation (as was with me). Try running System Restore – it worked for me. Restore to a date earlier than the date you started receiving that error.
junior Says:
September 19th, 2009 at 10:43 pm

thanks so much man it worked perfectly for me. I’m using xp no vista though
darkpanda Says:
October 8th, 2009 at 6:26 am

I kept getting this after i downloaded vistalizator to change my main computer language from finland to english now when i change manually my update settings i get like this screen->

green shield [empty scroll down box]
[empty scroll down box][filled timing box]
—————————————————————————————-
—————————————————————————————

microsoft update——————————————————————
—————————————————————————————-

any one have solution for that?
wguru Says:
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:24 pm

My resolution was in remembering and un-doing what I’d resorted to, ie; using TweakVI to stop updates.