How to repair a corrupt Group Policy in Windows 11/10

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If the changes made by you using Group Policy Editor are not reflected on the client machine, and yous receive errors that may bespeak to the fact that your Windows organization is not able to read Group Policy file (registry.pol), so you may need to repair a potentially corrupted Group Policy in Windows 11 or Windows 10. Let u.s.a. come across how you could do this.

Group Policy is a feature of Microsoft Windows Agile Directory which allows an administrator to make changes on features on Windows computers which are on the network. If the changes yous are trying to push is non registered on the client machine, then there could be a problem with the registry.politician file on the customer or the Group Policy folder could be missing.

Repair a decadent Group Policy in Windows 11/10

We will first with the basic proffer and so move further ahead. You volition demand to run information technology on the reckoner with admininstrative privileges.

1] Perform System Restore

Perform a Organization Restore and see if that helps you.

two] Run DISM Tool

When you run DISM (Deployment Imaging and Servicing Direction) tool, it volition repair Windows System Paradigm and Windows Component Store in Windows 10. This will make sure to restore the folders and files if they are missing or decadent. All of the arrangement inconsistencies and corruptions should exist fixed.

If this does non help, maybe you need to run DISM with a skillful source which may be on an external drive, using the following commands:

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:C:\RepairSource\Windows

Replace C:\RepairSource\Windows with the location of your repair source

To repair an offline image using a mounted image equally a repair source, employ:

Dism /Image:C:\offline /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:c:\test\mount\windows

See if this has resolved the effect.

3] Delete & Recreate missing registry.pol file

All Group Policy settings are stored in registry.pol file. If this file is missing, any changes pushed to the client volition non reflect at all. The good news is that yous tin recreate it. Only to brand sure delete the file, even if it exists.

Navigate toC:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\.

Cheque if it has theregistry.politician file. Delete it permanently using Shift + Delete.

To recreate it, open PowerShell with admin privileges. (Win+X+A)

Execute the post-obit command to refresh Grouping Policy settings:

gpupdate /force

This will refreseg Group Policy and recreate the Group Policy File.

four] Reset Group Policy to default

There are a couple of means to reset Group Policy to default. This will make certain that if there is any problem because of current settings, it volition be resolved. You tin use gpupdate or secedit to practise it.

5] Recreate secedit.sdb file

All security settings of Grouping Policy are stored insecedit.sdb file. If any changes made to security is not reflected, then instead of deleting the group policy file, we need to delete and recreate the secedit.sdb file.

Navigate toC:\WINDOWS\security\Database folder.

Locatesecedit.sdb file. Then either rename it or movement it to another folder.

Reboot your figurer, and information technology will automatically recreate the file again.

All these tips should help yous repair a potentially corrupt Grouping Policy on Windows computer.

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Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-year Microsoft MVP (2006-sixteen) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the unabridged post & the comments first, create a System Restore Point before making any changes to your system & be conscientious about whatever third-party offers while installing freeware.