Windows 10 Pro, 21H2. Yesterday, I used the following path in gpedit:
Computer Configuration > Administrator Templates > Windows Components > Store
to set the policy “Turn off Automatic Download and Install of updates” to “Enabled”. A little later, I ran gpedit again to check what I had done. To my surprise, I discovered that, in the same path, the policy “Turn off Automatic Download of updates on Win8 machines” had also been enabled. (As an aside, the relevance of this policy on a Windows 10 system baffles me!)
I tried setting the Win8 policy back to “Not configured”, coming out of gpedit, and then going back in to gpedit again to check what had happened. I discovered that both policies were now “Not configured”. It appears that you can’t set one policy without setting the other.
Does anyone know why this occurs? Is it a defect? Or is it like this by design? Or is it a developer expediency by having two policies feeding off the same registry key? Or what?
