Enable gpedit.msc in Windows 10 Home

Last updated on November 23, 2019

 

Windows 10 Home edition does not have an easy access to any tools allowing GPO configuration. Most of the time you can get around this limitation by editing Windows registry. But for that you need to know which registry keys and values correspond to GPO settings that you want to change. And you need to know how to edit the registry. The other option is – enable gpedit.msc in Windows 10 Home.

Create .bat file:

@echo off
pushd "%~dp0"
dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~3*.mum >list.txt
dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~3*.mum >>list.txt
for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . list.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i"
pause

and execute it as administrator. Restart might be needed when it’s done, and possibly the script needs rerun after every major Windows version update. Enjoy gpedit.msc in Windows 10 Home edition.

 

Tested on: W10 Home 1803/1809/1903 (cheers Joker)