Actually I am one of the 2 people who looks after network issues in our
company. My machine is a laptop and I still can't do it at home where I have
no access to the group policy and I log on locally. Incidentally, my wife's
laptop is in the same domain (and home!) and she can change her settings
without any problem.

"Lawrence Garvin [MVP]" wrote:

>
> Hmmm. sounds like you need to talk to somebody in your IT department who's
> managing your update services program.
>
> From the sounds of things, /you/ cannot change it back. It's been changed for
> you -- by domain policy.
>
>
> "sonacoach" <sonacoach@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2F8ABB9E-904B-45E6-9E67-3AB9C80F47A4@microsoft.com...
> > My Windows Update setting has changed from 'download but let me choose when
> > to install' to 'automatically download and install'. I don't like this new
> > setting, nor the fact that it changed without my knowledge.
> > When I try to change it back, all the settings are greyed out and I have no
> > option to change. This is true with my regular domain account and with my
> > local administrator account. Both accounts are part of the administrators
> > group.
> > How can I change back?
>
>
>