For my “convenience” and because in this way they can show ads and clickbait

Also: I SET A FUCKING GROUP POLICY THAT DISABLES THE SEARCH BAR; WHY THEY FUCKING IGNORE IT???

  • ludEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Microsoft has restricted normal GPOs to Pro and up, because the Home edition can’t join a domain. They also restricted local group policies but I don’t think they are used much (as it should be).

    OP said that they were in a domain so they are probably using normal GPOs with AD anyways.

    So if OP is running Windows Pro on a home machine and using GPO on a domain of one to override all the silly bullshit Microsoft has done to stop users moving away from default home configs, more power to them I say.

    No puppies are being harmed by using GPO to hack his home machine, lol.

    No, absolutely not. I just thought it was on a corporate domain joined computer. OP can do whatever they want on their own machine.

    Btw, GPOs just edit the windows register so you could just apply all the changes using regedit instead of using a GPO. This should also work on Home (I haven’t tried but I see no reason why it wouldn’t work). But please don’t, you will have a bad time if you do anything remotely complicated.

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      GPOs just edit the windows register so you could just apply all the changes using regedit instead of using a GPO.

      No. Because GPO involves differing rights as well as registry hacks, and because GPO allows you to change certain settings that are not in the registry at all, there are some things you can literally ONLY do via GPO. It’s been a while, but I’ve spent multiple hours trying on a few occasions when the situation demanded it, and ended up either installing Pro with GPO or abandoning the effort altogether.