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are you on a home edition of windows yet
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want the convenience of the group policy
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editor well in this video we will show
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you how to do just that
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for a more in-depth look at the topic be
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sure to check out the article in the
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the first thing we will look at is a
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free open source tool that makes it
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possible to edit local group policy on a
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home edition of windows it is called
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the tool is in compliance with licensing
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and you're free to use it without
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violating any microsoft terms
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download it from the github link
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and follow any of the instructions
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while that's downloading some of the
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administrative templates are available
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in home edition and as you see here you
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need to download the rest of them from
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the internet policy plus comes with un
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inbuilt functionality to download the
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latest package of these files from
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all you need to do is run the tool
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and this will download the full set of
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policy definitions from microsoft
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once downloaded tell it to open them
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policy plus is similar in setup to the
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group policy so experienced users should
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have no problem navigating around
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all the available policies are displayed
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you can navigate through the tree and
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find a suitable entry that you want to
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this tool can easily view and edit
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registry based policies and local gpos
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per user gpo's individual plo files
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offline registry user hives and the live
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you can also use the search
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functionality to find a specific policy
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you can search by id by text by registry
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and editing a policy is simple you need
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to just click open the policy
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make the desired change similar to the
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native group policy editor policy
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plus also displays the policy
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description and lets you make comments
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once you've made the changes to group
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policy object you'll need to restart
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your computer for the changes to take
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now features in a nutshell it runs and
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works on all windows edition not just
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pro and enterprise it complies fully
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with licensing i.e it's transplant no
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components across winsor installation
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you can view and edit registry based
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policies and local gpos per user gpo's
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individual pol files offline registry
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user hives and the live registry
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you can navigate the policies by id text
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or affected registry entries and you can
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show additional technical information
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about objects the policies the
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categories the products
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and provide convenient ways to share and
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the refresh policy x function does not
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work on the home edition so you have to
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restart your computer in order to
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you can create an edit per user group
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policies but their settings are ignored
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by windows so you'll need to edit the
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register yourself for those changes to
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if you do not want to download
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third-party software microsoft offers an
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undocumented way to enable gp edit in
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the windows home editions
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now before we begin you have to make
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sure that you are signed into an admin
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account and that you have an active
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open the command prompt as an
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and you can either type in these
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commands or you can just copy paste them
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we are just going to copy paste
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we will copy paste the other one
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then paste the other one
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after this you will need to restart your
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system and after you've restarted try
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using the gp edit msc command then
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now some administrative templates may be
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go to the article we have a link
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click on the red download button
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are available on the home edition for
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instance multiple loop local group
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are not supported on windows home you
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should also note that windows home users
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restart their computer to apply any of
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maximize your windows experience go to
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