Comments on: How To Enable Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) In Windows 10 Home

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 23:57:27 +0000

None of them are working. They aren’t changing the policies in the registry, so this is all for show.

By: Vinod Solanki

Vinod Solanki — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 06:24:54 +0000

In reply to Sherri. It worked for me. Thanks a lot Usman.

By: Scooby

Scooby — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 14:13:01 +0000

In reply to TechCodger. This does not work as of 10/2022. You can get gpedit but it will not work properly without the right windows certification.

By: Sava Politis

Sava Politis — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 23:43:54 +0000

Few articles are as well written and contain the level of detail that you provided. Thanks for your contribution to society – this worked a treat!

By: Riyaz

Riyaz — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 04:09:01 +0000

Assalamualaikum Usman,

For me the first method itself worked(7/7/2022), cheers!!!

By: Sherri

Sherri — Fri, 27 May 2022 08:08:11 +0000

Just a thank you for this and to say that this worked flawlessly on my new Win 11 Home laptop – I ran the two lines up top in cmd (as admin) and now have Local Group Policy Editor which was not accessible before (you must be admin to run it of course).

When scanning comments I wonder if some folks are having problems because of putting in the two lines at once? I ran the first line from cmd:

FOR %F IN (“%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~*.mum”) DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:”%F”)

And waited for it to finish – then I ran the second line:

FOR %F IN (“%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum”) DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:”%F”)

When it finished, I typed exit. Opened “run” from windows key, typed in gpedit.msc and voila! it opened up no problems.

Hopefully helps a few others, thank you for helping me Usman!

By: JEB

JEB — Tue, 24 May 2022 08:34:38 +0000

This is a comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide. The years spent in IT Support are apparent.

With the group policy editor now installed, proceeding to prevent MS from accessing systems at their whim.

Thank you for pulling this thorn from my paw.

Do you have any thoughts on:

1. Preventing windows update from changing the login background from the custom one selected to their default.

2. Preventing systems from being used as update software sources without permission.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 19:26:45 +0000

In reply to Meo. It's not in the NTFS folder, it's in the "file system" folder before it

By: dustylamborghini

dustylamborghini — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:24:31 +0000

Download of .bat-file worked.
Right-clicking and running as administrator worked; the script download worked.
The installation executed with a series of similar installs, which took time – but worked.
Windows/system32 now has the file gpedit.msc – confirmed.
Double clicking gpedit.msc worked.
Following the steps found on this link ( https://www.windowscentral.com/how-stop-updates-installing-automatically-windows-10 ) to disable windows update [now] worked.
Cannot confirm if updates have stopped yet, but it looks promising (as I keep an eye on the windows update service, which has restarted itself within minutes of being disabled for months now – and it has not restarted itself… yet).

Thank you!

By: ahmad mohmed

ahmad mohmed — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:20:53 +0000

In reply to Greg. I think I have the same problem you which is random deletion of files and folders so I needed to use windows file auditing but I still cannot find \local policies\Audit policy to use audit service and see whats deleting my data so any solution any ideas my windows is 10 home 20H2 19042.1165