How to access local group policy editor (gpedit.msc) in Windows10 home? [duplicate]
I use Win10 home build 15063.138 and when I go to the the Run program and do gpedit.msc to run local group policy editor, I get an error that this program wasn't found.
Also, when I type in the search local group policy editor, I don't found it.
When I went to "Turn Windows features on or off" just to check if I should turn on this feature, I didn't find it in a quick search.
Why isn't it available?
It is not available in the Home versions of Windows, and you need to have a Pro version of Windows, or above.
So, you'd have to make any changes directly in the registry.
Microsoft INTENTIONALLY left this out of the Home version, possibly for revenue reasons. If you intend to manage a PC using Group Policy or Active Directory, you can't manage these Home version PCs without paying to upgrade them to a Pro version, or above.
I'd like to hear from Microsoft's business division, to see if they care about other's providing workarounds to enable adding GPedit to Home editions. If there's not a revenue problem, then there are technical workarounds available.
Here's a link to a Superuser post to add GPedit: Windows Starter Edition, Home and Home Premium do not include gpedit, how do I install it? However, I've extracted all the files inside the downloaded EXE, and here's what I found:
- There are a number of Windows files that I have not verified as safe or even if they were from a genuine copy of Windows
- These Windows files are most certainly not the versions you'd want for every version of Windows.
- The scripts contained appear to work and are likely safe, and you could simply modify them to do what is needed, instead of running their EXE to add GPedit. The scripts should be supplemented or modified however, with the instructions from the superuser link above.
- There is an UNKNOWN INSTALLER.EXE file that I couldn't extract, so I have no idea what it is, or if it is safe. (I also have not submitted it to VirusTotal for analysis).
I used UniExtract as one of the tools to analyze the files.
It is not available in Windows 10 home, instead premium versions like Pro, Education and Enterprise