How to Enable the GPEdit.msc on Windows 10 and 11 Home?

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Anonymous
2022-03-27T16:28:44+00:00

Ive recently had to search for this informtion and thought I would share the answer. Sorce - Enable Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) on Windows 10/11 Home Edition | Windows OS Hub (woshub.com) "It is likely that, according to the Microsoft logic, the home user doesn’t need to edit the local settings through the gpedit.msc GUI. Accordingly, users of the Windows 10 home editions have to make changes through the registry editor regedit.exe`, which is not so clear and more risky since it is possible to make a mistake and break the system.

Fortunately, Windows 10 Home has the undocumented option to install the gpedit.msc editor from the Windows image packages and manifests repository (\Windows\servicing\packages).

How to Enable the GPEdit.msc on Windows 10 and 11 Home?

To install the Local Group Policy Editor in Windows 10 Home edition, open a command prompt as administrator and run two one-line commands in sequence:

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") Also these commands can be used to install gpedit.msc console in Windows 11 Home. For convenience, you can save this code to a text file gpedit-install.bat and run it as administrator. Wait a while until DISM installs the packages from the Windows 10 component store.

In my case, the ClientTools and ClientExtensions packages were installed in Windows 10 Home:

Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~…~amd64~~….mum
Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~…~amd64~en-US~….mum
Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~…~amd64~~….mum
Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~…~amd64~en-US~….mum

Now try to run the gpedit.msc console. The Local Group Policy Editor interface should open (no reboot required). The GPO editor is fully functional even in the Home edition of Windows 10 or Windows 11, and contains all the necessary policy sections that are available in the Pro/Enterprise editions."

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-13T03:02:03+00:00

    It worked! Thank you

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-26T23:48:01+00:00

    If anyone is still having trouble and you're not so tech savvy, run this file from Major Geeks website as an Administrator. In order it to work correctly, right before you double click on it from your Downloads folder, you must say *out loud* "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" while the song "Cotton Eyed Joe" is playing in the background. Then type 'gpedit' into a terminal, disco!.. Don't ask me how, it's just the way the world works now a days . . . . Stay rad

    -Rad

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-02T21:05:17+00:00

    When search "run" and then I'm type the "gpedit.msc" but it doesn't work can you install for you.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-12T19:09:16+00:00

    this is what happens when i copied and pasted the code

    C:\Users\Owner>FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F")Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~…~amd64~~….mum

    Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~…~amd64~~….mum was unexpected at this time.

    C:\Users\Owner>Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~…~amd64~en-US~….mum

    'Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~…~amd64~en-US~….mum' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

    operable program or batch file.

    C:\Users\Owner>Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~…~amd64~~….mum

    'Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~…~amd64~~….mum' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

    operable program or batch file.

    C:\Users\Owner>Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~…~amd64~en-US~….mum

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