Windows update turned off alert balloon.

I'm having an issue with not being able to turn on the Automatic Updates. An
alert balloon is on all the time telling me that my Automatic updates are not
turned on and if I click on "Turn on Automatic Updates" in the security
center I get the following message "We're sorry. The Security Center could
not chage your Automatic Update setting. To try changing these settings
yourself, go to System n Ctrl Panel. On the Automatic Updates tab, select
Automatic and then click Ok."

The ironic thing is when I did that the "Automatic" option is selected
already. Nothing is grayed out or abnormal. If I click on it and close I
still get the alert balloon.

More searching led me to checking the Services (services.msc) and check the
Automatic Updates and ensure it's enabled and started. It wasn't it was
disabled. I set it to Automatic and clicked Appy, then clicked on Start in
the Automatic Updates Properties. I got an error. "Could not start the
Automatic Updates service on Local Computer. Error 1058: The service cannot
be started, either because it is disabled ro because it has no enabled
devices associated with it."

Additionally, in other searches I've found reference to a Key in the
registery that I don't have "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Policies \
Microsoft \ Windows \ WindowsUpdate \ AU" I don't know why it's not there or
how to get it.

Any advice or assistance on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

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