How to Make the Group Policy Editor Available in Windows 7, 8, and 10 Home Editions

Windows Professional, Enterprise, and Education editions are the only ones that can use Group Policy Management. However, Home users can enable the Local Group Policy Editor with a few adjustments, or you can utilize a third-party program to access a larger range of settings. We present both possibilities to you.

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Update: Decoupled settings are now available in Windows 10 Home's Local Group Policy Editor. The settings listed below may still be visible to you, but changing them may have no impact on your system.

The two that are most useful are as follows:

Press Win + R to enter the Run menu, type gpedit.msc, and then press Enter to launch the Local Group Policy Editor. In the search window that appears after pressing Win or Win + Q on Windows 10 to enable Cortana, type gpedit.msc and choose the appropriate result. If it still doesn't work, you may not have Administrator rights or be using Windows Home, in which case you cannot access the Local Group Policy Editor.

Other than supporting several Windows generations, the best feature of the first strategy is that no downloads are required. Instead, files already existent in your operating system are used to install Group Policy Editor. The system files contain all the data needed by the program even when gpedit.msc isn't installed in Windows Home.

With the aid of the Windows DISM instructions, the Group Policy Editor will be installed (credit to Solomon at SQL Quantum Leap for this).

The best way to customize Windows settings without using the Group Policy Editor

Consider adopting a more practical and effective substitute before attempting to enable the Local Group Policy Editor. All Windows editions are compatible with Policy Plus, an open-source program that provides you access to settings in the Windows Registry and Group Policy Editor. It needs the.NET Framework 4.5 or later. Installing the Release build, which is more dependable, is advised. After installation, select Help > Acquire ADMX Files, verify the destination location, then select Begin to start downloading more administrative templates.

🎇1st Procedure:

Step 1. Copy the entire body of text and paste/enter it into an admin-level Command Prompt.

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

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

Step 2. Restart the computer.

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Second action:

Group Policy Editor can be substituted with Policy Plus. If the first method didn't work and you don't mind using third-party software, Policy Plus is a free, portable, and open source tool that can be installed on any Windows version and offers a user interface for altering Group Policy that is similar to Microsoft's Group Policy Editor. However, Policy Plus's designer cautions that some changes must be saved via File > Save in order to be effective.