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Thinking about using SubInACL to grant full permissions to admin.
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Thinking about using SubInACL to grant full permissions to admin.

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How did you set the permissions to deny, exactly?
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How did you set the permissions to deny, exactly?

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To Davis: Process explorer&gt;svchost process properties&gt;services&gt;permis<wbr />sions&gt;deny<wbr />
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To Davis: Process explorer>svchost process properties>services>permissions>deny

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Lionel: your script ran and now I am waiting for Microsoft Update to check for updates.
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Lionel: your script ran and now I am waiting for Microsoft Update to check for updates.

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Unfortunately, MS Update hung at Checking for Updates... overnight. Tried to restart it this morning, got the same error.
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Unfortunately, MS Update hung at Checking for Updates... overnight. Tried to restart it this morning, got the same error.

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Ended up unregistering the windows update .dll.
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Ended up unregistering the windows update .dll.

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Earlier today, I set the permissions for the Automatic Updates service (wuauserv) to DENY. I've tried:<br />
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regsvc32.dll command lines in safe mode<br />
Multiple user accounts<br />
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Any ideas?<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
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Earlier today, I set the permissions for the Automatic Updates service (wuauserv) to DENY. I've tried:

regsvc32.dll command lines in safe mode
Multiple user accounts

Any ideas?

Thanks

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