Thursday, June 6, 2019

Group Policy editor for commonly used group policy control items in Windows 10

The following  tool can help Group Policy editor for commonly used group policy control items in Windows 10 .

Please refer GitHub URL : https://github.com/velanr1980/GroupPolicyEditor1

The GPO objects covered are as follows :
  1. Enable/Disable Firewall (Domain profile) - HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile
  2. Enable/Disable Firewall (Standard profile) - HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile
  3. Group Policy refresh interval - HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System -Name GroupPolicyRefreshTime
  4. Group Policy refresh time offset - HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System -Name GroupPolicyRefreshTimeOffset
  5. No Autorun option enable/disable - HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoAutoRun
  6. Disable Cortana in Windows 10 Searches (Only applicable for Windows 10 Home, Professional & Enterprise)
  7. Disable Windows Store (Only applicable for Windows 10 Professional & Enterprise)
  8. Screen saver activation, with password, and timeout setting
Please also find Powershell script equivalent of this program in the Github repository (file name : group_policy_win10_v2.ps1).
This Powershell script covers same features/GPO objects as the CLI EXE program in the GitHub repository, and can also be used for group policy objects changes.
License and copyright applicable.

Note :
a) This was tested in Windows 10 Professional Edition environment , and should work on Windows 10 Enterprise Edition (and WIndows 2016) as well.
b) This program will NOT work for Windows 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows XP.
c) It is designed for local GPO of Windows 10 (local profile), and NOT for domain level GPO objects.
d) This CLI EXE program is designed to edit registry settings, so please run it in adiministrator mode.


I did not include a USAGE manual , as it is easy & straight forward to use.

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