A lot of company windows domain system administrator will disable user to access Windows Update in Microsoft Site and push the patch to your desktop via a internal site, but for the developer who using tools like Visual Studio or SQL Server, the domain system administrator won’t help you.

So the below content will help you, you can copy and save as “enable_windows_update.reg” file and double click to enable the Windows Update:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
 
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WindowsUpdate]
"DisableWindowsUpdateAccess"=dword:00000000
 
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WindowsUpdate]
"DisableWindowsUpdateAccess"=dword:00000000