Group policy editor comes as a core component on your Windows installation. But sadly, it’s not the case when you have Windows 10 Home edition installed on your system because the Group policy editor is only included in pro versions like Windows 10 Pro or Pro Education. Here’s how you can also install and add features of Group Policy editor in Windows.
Group Policy editor makes it possible to apply policies to your system to control how your PC is used. This is a vital feature if you have multiple systems on your network or multiple users on your system. Since these features won’t be necessary in-home environment, so Microsoft decided to exclude this feature. But for some reason, you may want to use this feature. So in this article, let’s see how you can install the Group Policy editor on your Windows PC.
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How to install Group Policy Editor in Windows?
There are several different ways to install the policy editor. For Windows 7, it comes preinstalled, but for new Windows 10 users, users have to instal it manually. Here’s how:
Method 1: Enable using Powershell or CMD script
This is the easiest method. You have to download and run a script on your machine. Don’t worry. This script is only going to enable the Group Policy editor on your machine. So you can run this without any worries.
- First, download this zip file on your PC. gpedit-enabler
- Extract the zip file to anywhere accessible.
- Right-click on the gpedit-enabler.bat file and click on Run as administrator.
- Wait for it to complete.
