Windows 10 is one of the best versions of Windows comes with great security, user friendly, and more but it also lacks some features, one of them is Group Policy Editor(gpedit.msc). When you want to do the task in this like ‘disabling USB ports’ of windows 10 to safe your data, then it shows “Windows cannot find this command“. So, by following this article you’re going to fix gpedit.msc issues today for permanent.

In this article, you are going to see “How to enable gpedit.msc in window 10 home edition” because Group Policy Editor does not have access to Windows 10 Home Edition only because in Windows 10 pro, enterprise or in education edition you get access.

How to enable gpedit.msc in Windows 10 Home version?

You are going to see many methods in this article to enable gpedit.msc(group policy editor) in window 10 home edition:

Method 1

Step 1: First, download gpedit file to your computer, file is clean and provided by me so, 100% safe to use.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded file and move the gpedit-enabler.bat file on the desktop.

Step 3: Now, do a right-click on a file and select “Run as Administrator” to install it.

Step 4: Wait, until the process gets completed after successful installation, press any key to finish the setup and close the command prompt.

Now you notice in the extracted folder there is a new file generated with the name of “List.txt“.

Step 5: Now, open the Run tool and type gpedit.msc to open group policy editor in window 10 home edition.

Your Group Policy editor is now opened successfully.

Note: If you see error 740 then, you probably forget to install with ‘run as administrator‘ options (step 3).

Now, you’re done with this simple process of enabling gpedit.msc in window 10.

Method 2

Third-party apps to use gpedit.msc in Windows 10 home

The above method is an official way to enable gpedit.msc in window 10 home but if you can’t able to install it properly in your window, then you can use third-party apps that serve the same purpose as the official tool does.

Policy Plus

This tool is like gpedit.msc official app in terms of interface and functionality. Windows 10 home version doesn’t provide registry templates, this tool allows you to download all templates of the registry from the Microsoft site.

Install Policy Plus to enable gpedit.msc in window 10:

step 1: Download Policy-plus files on your computer.

Step 2: Right-click on the file, select “Run as Administrator” and install the tool.

Step 3: Now, install ADMX files online.

Step 4: To install these templates, go to menu>Help>Acquire ADMX Files.

Step 5: Now restart your PC, and you can use these tools.

There you completed the second method also, now you can enable gpedit.msc in window 10 home.

Method 3

Enable Local Group Policy Editor using gpedit installer

However, if the above method fails to install Local Group Policy in Windows 10, you can use the MSI installer to install the Group Policy Editor on your Windows 10 Home edition.

• Download Gpedit.msc installer.
• You will get a zip file, extract it then run the MSI installer as administrator.
• Once it is finished, Group Policy Editor is now available on your Windows 10 Home.

Also read: Best way to Disable USB ports in Windows 10

For the 32-bit version, the installer works fine and you will access Group Policy Editor. But for a 64-bit version, you will need to do some extra steps that are easy to do. Just follow the below steps carefully to enable Group Policy Editor:

Step 1: Open the file explorer

Step 2: Go to the “C:/Windows/SysWOW64 directory“.

Step 3: Copy the following files and folders – GroupPolicy, GroupPolicyUsers, and gpedit.msc.

Step 4: Go back to the windows directory and then navigate the ‘System32‘ directory.

Step 5: Paste everything here you copied from the SysWOW64 directory.

Now, again open the run box using the Windows+R shortcut key, type gpedit.msc, and hit enter. This launch Group Policy Editor on your Windows 10 home.

Now, you’re done with all the best methods to enable gpedit.msc in window 10 home version.

Troubleshooting

If you couldn’t get Group Policy working, here are some steps that help.

Reboot: While reboot not be required, but users report that after rebooting the system Group Policy Editor starts working perfectly.

Conclusion

These are the simple steps that are used to Download and enable gpedit.msc in window 10 home edition. We hope this method helped you perfectly, these are the best methods you are ever seen to fix gpedit.msc in Windows 10.

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