Gpedit.msc alternative vista

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The gpedit. You can open the Registry Editor and change the key listed in the table. Improve this answer. Ramhound Albic Albic 2, 19 19 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges.

Thank you, this worked. And I am now considering writing a front end to these keys, but manually regeditting them will work for now. Albic, Is msdn. Pacerier: It appears it's not the full list.

Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Try a System Restore once there, to pick a Restore Point before your problem.. Close the Command Prompt Window when the job is finished. Mick Murphy - Microsoft Partner. How satisfied are you with this reply? Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Vista Setup. For deployment issues, please use the Windows Vista Deployment and Imaging forum.

Sign in to vote. Tuesday, April 21, PM. This will check and restore the original system files. Marked as answer by steviegt Tuesday, April 21, PM. The only reliable way to install gpedit is to upgrade to Vista Ultimate. You cannot successfully reverse engineer Vista Home Premium to install gpedit.

Carey Frisch. By contrast, on a Professional Windows edition the same restriction does become active. So in short, it seems your wasting your time getting the GUI on Home editions as it still remains ineffective to the OS. I was hoping to disable Lock Screen but without this option in GPE I will have to resort to the Registry tweak via an elevated command prompt:.

It was the one in the main body of the article. Thanks for getting back! Which file did you download? Is it the one which we mentioned in the article or someone in the comments? Quick question. Should I have an installation entry? Thanks in advance! Should I be seeing this? Better safe than sorry. Thank you! Kevin thanks for the update. I have tried it and it works while running as an administrator.

Same thing for me. This worked fine as far as it went. My problem is that I want to apply a policy to a specific user so I need to be able to add the group policy editor as a snap in to the MMC when I open the mmc the and try to add a snap in the group policy editor is not available I can run gpedit. I installed and replaced the files. Duplicated the files in sysWOW64, thus can search gor gpedit. Installed file x My group policy holders file was empty as you saw from my post.

I therefore went back to the beginning and followed the instructions word by word — especially. You may download it from the below mentioned download link……… This is a simple setup file which when run will install and configure the Group Policy Editor in your Windows Home system. Password changes to stop expiration as follows: Maximum password age — set to zero for password never expires.

Also it is recommended to set Minimum Passowrd Age to 0 zero as well to be sure. Hope this works for you Rudy Kind regards — weeshus. Eric you can disable OneDrive using Group Policy of the local computer.

Please refer to this Microsoft guide for doing this. For advanced users, OneDrive can also be disabled using Windows Registry. You can follow this Microsoft guide for disabling OneDrive using Registry.

Maybe the problems your correspondents are suffering stem from the following type of problems — all destined to strike terror into our hearts. Some people have been clicking on the fake links around it and downloading who-knows-what, instead, then accusing me of uploading something packed with viruses. I welcome people choosing between us which one to trust.

My systems works on 64 bits, under W Thanks for your effort to read all this. Tried the updated install, and still get the issue that the MMC could not create the snap in. All I need to do is allow myself to install network protocols.

If you have another way to do this, I would greatly appreciate the help. Thanks in advance. Same problem as yours, but I figure it out. Run x86 or x64 as administrator, and run installer. The mmc should be work. I installed correctly in Windows 10 Home 64 bits following the steps one by one. I run gpedit. You can see on the file host site that it comes up clean with ClamAV and Sophos. How did you determine the setup is bad? I ran the setup and used the gpedit which allowed TurboTax to update properly ie.

Now you have me worried.. Sorry, but the setup file is corrupted by 1 Trojan virus and 2 malware!!! So still looking for trusted source file! Installed with no problems on W10 Home x64 and seems to run OK. Thanks you to solve to horrible Microsoft missing in the home Edition. Thanks Thanks Thanks.

The only settings that we can access are ones defined in old ADM templates. Unfortunately, that mostly means settings from Windows and XP. Those policies may be more baked into the system than a handful of DLLs or maybe Microsoft implemented some security to prevent this kind of use on other editions; who knows. After being sure the. Your instructions were perfect. However, changing the settings in Windows Update the reason for installing gpedit in the first place does not appear to have any effect.

Updates advanced still on shows Automatic etc. Any ideas? If not or even if so , run it as an administrator. Well I have tried both methods and I still cannot get gpedit to run in my version of Windows Whenever I try to run it I get error message Windows cannot find gpedit. So any further suggestions would be appreciated. I decided to take the files from the installer and try to create a better installer that just works, without errors and without extra steps needed.

I also added two features: the option to create Start Menu and Desktop icons and the ability to uninstall it upon which all of your original files will be restored.

Give my installer a try and tell us if it works and solves the errors. Sorry for my bad english. I succeded with installing gpedit. Where can be the problem? JH thanks a lot for the feedback. I have removed the colon and put the folder names on the new line. I hope this will be clear now Thanks for that — it seems to work perfectly on Win 10 Home edition — 64 bit version.

Upgraded from Win8. Regards ,. This was for a 64 bit machine. Windows 10 Advanced Configurations. How do I see if a specific group policy is applied? Does group policy override Windows Registry? He has experience in everything from IT support, helpdesk, sysadmin, network admin, and cloud computing. Share on: Subscribe. No operation was performed.

For more information, review the log file. Thank you for letting us know. The download link is now fixed. Have a nice one! I tried 2 and the fixes for bit but I am still getting the snap-in error. Grant, please run the file as an administrator. All the three solutions given in this article are still working.