How to Enable Group Policy Editor on Windows 10 Home Edition

Jul. 28, 2020

Microsoft offers multipleeditions of Windows 10for different sets of customers. There is the Pro version for professionals, Home edition for basic users, Student edition for educational needs, and Enterprise edition for businesses. And the differentiating factor between all these editions is that some core system tools are available on some versions and removed from other builds. Similar is the case with Group Policy Editor. This system tool is part of the Windows 10 Pro edition, but it’s natively disabled on Home edition. So if you want to enable Group Policy Editor onWindows 10Home Edition, you have come to the right place. Here, we are going to show you how to fix “Windows Cannot Find gpedit.msc” error in just four steps.

Enable Group Policy Editor on Windows 10 Home Edition

1. You just need todownload a batch filecreated by MajorGeeks. It will do everything and you don’t need to go through any messy installation process.

2. Finally, once the installation is done, restart your computer and you will have Group Policy Editor enabled. Justsearch for “gpedit”and there you have it.

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