06-30-2019, 01:40 PM
(06-25-2019, 09:10 PM)Taem Wrote: Okay, so I got so sick of W10 either automatically shutting down to do an update while I was in the middle of something (despite turning off every setting for W10 updates I could find on the internet), or restarting and booting into Linux when I left my computer alone too long so I straight up disabled windows updates in the registry.
So now, every time I boot up MS Office, 2010 edition, it says my product key is invalid. It annoyingly tried to install updates before leaving my computer frozen for 1-2 minutes each time I opened up an Office document, but I also disabled that in the registry, however I still can't get rid of the damn "Product Activation Failed" in red at the top of all my office programs for my very valid and working MS Office. Any ideas how to get rid of this with Windows update completely disabled in registry?
I use LibreOffice, however, if I was in your position I would try reversing the registry edits, restart, and run Baltagy's StopWinUpdates. It works great for me.