After removing a virus from a Windows XP computer, I got this message when I tried to turn on Automatic Updates: “Security Center could not change your Automatic Updates settings.” Viruses usually leave their little hooks behind after you uninstall them, disabling the tools that you need to fight them. So thanks to this page and this page, I found out how to turn Automatic Updates back on after the computer was clean of any more viruses. It’s all about registering some DLLs that got unregistered.

Click Start, select Run and type:

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

Press Enter after each one and wait for the success message

This worked to get my Automatic Updates turned back on, and my Windows Updates working again.

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