'Your Download has paused.' Origin won't update game

I played yesterday with no problem. Today it said it had an update. I tried running the update and it said windows was blocking the permissions? I can’t figure out what to do since no windows permission box came up for me to say yes or no to it. Please help. 

@STEPHIEFAB  Try running Origin as an admin: right-click on the Origin icon and select "Run as administrator."

I am having the same problem as Steph. Tried running as admin, did not work. Did a test downloading of another game (on Steam) and a driver download from nvidia without any problems. So I would have to guess it is an Origin thing. Anyone else having problems?

@Baal62  There are a handful of reports today (not only with Sims 4), and I think Origin updated yesterday, so there may be some issue with the new version.  You can try messing with the User Access Control settings on your computer to see whether it helps.  Type "uac" wtihout quotes in the search box in the lower left corner of your screen, open UAC, shift the setting to the lowest (or the highest, as you're supposed to get a notification every time), click OK, and test.

Please make sure any other antivirus/firewall you run isn't blocking Origin.  If necessary, you can temporarily disable it, just long enough to let the downlaod go through.

I appreciate the quick reply. I have now tried the update with UAC in each position with the same result  (waiting on permissions). I also tried it with Windows Defender disabled (currently not running any 3rd party protection software), also with no joy. The computer is 2 weeks old and only used for gaming, no social media etc, so it is a really clean new windows install.

@Baal62  Try creating a new Windows admin user account, one with only letters and numbers (no special characters) in the name.  Maybe you'll be able to update Sims 4 in that account.

And yeah, I don't know exactly what's going on here, but it's definitely annoying.

Second user created... and update is dl/ing. Thank you for your time and help. Oh you were right  "but it's definitely annoying".

Annoyingly, i have the same issue but creating a new user account didn't help ☹️ still can't download the game, it still asks for a popup that never appears

Same problem in Windows 10 1903 18362.535

Faulting application name: OriginWebHelperService.exe, version: 10.5.56.33908

Tried:

1. different UAC settings

2. with Origin client in Restricted Access Mode

3. running as administrator

4. uninstall/reinstall origin client

5. new local admin account

PS: also tried sending error report thru Origin client, but does not appear in My Cases (ref: Report ID 10d4e353b00c4563)

Also having this issue after windows update. Must be a bug in the origin client.