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Group policies and registry keys are gentle suggestions. Deleting or renaming files is "I wasn't asking, it's my computer not yours" kind of approach.

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Oh, I thought the "I wasn't asking" option was to just reimage it with Linux.

…until Windows Update Repair or the like undo your changes.

You can do this to Windows Update too.

Which itself gets repaired by Windows Update Repair.

Either way, removing C:\windows\system32\wua* did it for me

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