Group Policy Editor in windows 7 home premium or Windows 7 Starter, Basic is not functional. Here is a free tool to enable the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) in those versions of Windows 7 with details how to use.
If you try to open the Group Policy Editor in Windows 7 Home Premium, Starter or Basic by typing gpedit.msc in the start menu search box or try to run it, the “local Group Policy Editor” window will open with the following message, “MMC could not create the snap-in”.
The reason is, you will not have the Local Group Policy Editor available in the Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, and Home Premium editions. Same non availability of Group Policy Editor error will show if you use Windows 7 Home Premium on a Mac.
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Here is what jwils876 has done a great job by distributing this tool originally created by “davehc” on the Windows 7 forums. He has created an small tool that will enable Group Policy Editor in Windows 7 Home Premium or lower versions.
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Cho Spy says
Thank You… it’s work
kbacon77 says
Did NOT install gpedit.msc … did something, not sure what!
this site also does NOT install gpedit.msc: icpep . org/installing-gpedit-msc/comment-page-1/#comment-6085
Abhishek says
If you are using 64 bit, then you must go to the SysWOW64 folder and copy the GroupPolicy, GroupPolicyUsers folder and the gpedit.msc file into the System32 folder. Report back if it still does not work.
juvann says
Abhishek says:
September 12, 2011 at 6:07 am
If you are using 64 bit, then you must go to the SysWOW64 folder and copy the GroupPolicy, GroupPolicyUsers folder and the gpedit.msc file into the System32 folder. Report back if it still does not work.
NO GPEDIT.MSC IN SysWOW64..
Abhishek says
Sad. That means it works for some and does not for others. Some people has some problem like you : http://jwils876.deviantart.com/art/Add-GPEDIT-msc-215792914 (developer’s page).
As Microsoft Windows is not an open source software, unfortunately neither we nor the developer can help you much, I guess. Still, you can contact the developer from the above link.
If you need any specific feature to enable/disable via Group Policy Editor, just mention them, we will give you the equivalent registry key. We can offer up to this.
abdul rehman says
thanks boos i have to gpedit missing thanks spt
TheTrueNorth says
running win7 home premium 64 & works fine for me
tkx much
Abhishek says
You are welcome.
Arun mehra says
Thanks dood thanku soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much i dot it now i can do my work
once again thanks :-) ;-)
bigjump says
Thanks alot, everything is working well on my Windows Seven Home Premium 64 bit :)
But scripts are missing, folders are empty :(
Please, have you an idea where I should find them ?
Thanks :)
Abhishek says
Can you please explain with a screen shot what is the problem?
bigjump says
I find no script neither in “ScriptsLogon” nor in “ScriptsLogoff” folders.
I need a script which makes temp folders at startup.
In my mind I thought to find scripts ready to use.
And I don’t know how to write a script.
miltos says
could you explain the process for 64bit in laymens terms please.
Abhishek says
Which OEM / Brand?
bigjump says
I’ve got “MakeTempFolders.bat”, it works when I double-clic on it.
But the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) seems not to work when Windows start up, as the folders are not created.
So I wonder why ?
PERMATA says
makasih banyak….???
san says
hello guys, i install the software and go to SysWOW64 folder and copy the GroupPolicy, GroupPolicyUsers folder but the gpedit.msc not exist there only the gpedit and gpedit.dll but i copy and paste also the gpedit.
and when i run gpedit.msc it says that mmc could not create the snap in?
san says
i follow your instruction but the gpedit.msc not exist in syswow64 only the file gpedit and gpedit.dll file but i copy and paste it to system 32 and when i run gpedit.msc it says that mmc could not create the snap in.
Abhishek says
Windows 7 x64 Users:
You must go to the SysWOW64 folder and copy the GroupPolicy, GroupPolicyUsers folder and the gpedit.msc file into the System32 folder.
Jodi says
Man It’s Work!! thank you so much!
Abhishek says
You are welcome Jodi.
siva says
Abhi,
I followed above instructions and successfully installed gpedit.msc but unable to get ‘Driver Installation’ under ‘Administrative Templates’ (it’s under ‘User Configuration’). Expand ‘System’. Thanks for your help.
Siva
Abhishek says
Hello Siva,
That means its not working for you, at least for your indented purpose.
You can take the other route by using equivalent Registry values – Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows 7. Painful alternative though.
I have not checked ‘Administrative Templates’ myself on Win 7 home, please report back if it is working.
-Abhishek
Inas says
It’s not working this is Win7 64 :(
krutarth says
Thank you for your consideration
saket says
u r really gr8!!!! thnx a lot!!
Spar07 says
I had to do a little bit more than what is described here. After I got into SysWOW64, I had to go to GPBAKgpedit ( type in “Yes”) User ConfigurationAdministration TemplatesControl PanelDisplayPrevent Changing Wallpaper and then, click on “Enable”.
After testing this setting, it works well for me. I did download this program though which is the only way I could resolve my problem. I found the gpedit.dll file but that was it. Nothing of the actual file needed was anywhere in Windows &. It seems like the install forgot to add it to my files. Crazy, and to think, the authors/programmers of Windows 7 thought they had it all and right. Guess they were wrong.
luke says
I can open it but if I activate a user affected script like preventing access to the control panel it doesn’t work :(
techie says
This worked for me.
Sourav says
I did that, but on opening gpedit.msc it shows “mmc could not create the snap-in”…I did try a solution that says add %System…….. to the environment variables but no help….I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
Sourav says
I did that, but on opening gpedit.msc it shows “mmc could not create the snap-inâ€â€¦I did try a solution that says add %System…….. to the environment variables but no help….I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
Jive Dadson says
(Sorry for the multiple posts. It’s late.)
PRESENT ON WIN 7 HOME PREMIUM SYSTEM, BUT HIDDEN
I used a third party searcher (Agent Ransack), and it turned out there were already no fewer than six copies of pgedit.msc on my new Gateway computer, which the Explorer search was, I surmise, hiding from me. There were two versions, one 35K in size, and another 144KB. I think the larger one is probably a 64bit version. Anyway, I used one of the 144KB executables that was in a directory created by the OEM. It seems to have worked. Guess I will find out next Tuesday.
Abhishek says
Thanks Jive. It throws some light towards understanding why it works only for some.
BOY says
Thank you so much. I was completely going mad by searching a solution for this problem.It works on windows 7 home basic 64 bit also without copying those files.
Edited : Please do not use all caps.
Abhishek says
You are welcome. Many thanks for the feedback.
Asadullah says
I use windows 7 home premium
Asadullah says
If you are using 64 bit, then you must go to the SysWOW64 folder and copy the GroupPolicy, GroupPolicyUsers folder and the gpedit.msc file into the System32 folder. Report back if it still does not workI I do this but I not found .
javid says
I use windows home premium and I already install the setup.exe file
rsk says
Hi Dr.Abhishek, im not able to find the the gpedit.msc file in the SysWOW64 folder. Could u pls suggest what i can do?
Abhishek says
SysWOW64 is located at
; where C is the Windows 7 (64 bit) installation folder.
Fritz says
Very nice tool. Do you have a page somewhere where you explain how you do it (from a programming point of view)?
Abhishek says
Nope. The source code is probably not open (I am not 100% sure).
Brandon Bachman says
Yeah, this works. Just do what everyone else has been saying:
Update your system to SP1
Install GPEdit using this super-awesome installer.
Because the super-awesome installer is also super-dumb, go into %SYSTEMROOT%/syswow64 and copy GroupPolicy, GroupPolicyUsers and gpedit.msc into %SYSTEMROOT%/system32
kenshin says
I already install din software GPEDIT.MSC…But still not working…even I search it to run command….
my OS was Windows7 Home BAsic…
please help me with this….
THANK YOU
kenshin says
I am using 64 bits…where can I find SysWOW64 ?????
Please help me…
Thank You
Dean says
This isn’t working for me, it fires up and looks ok but it doesn’t act like Group policy editor would do normally. I have a batch file that I want to run at startup and shutdown. I place the scripts in the default GP locations C:WindowsSystem32GroupPolicyMachineScripts startup/shutdown. But when I browse to them in GP to add them, the folders are blank. So I created & placed the scripts inside a C:windowsGroupPolicy. This time GP editor did see them when I looked for them, but the scripts themselves still wont run a startup or shutdown. I have no idea why, the scripts run fine when double clicking on them. And I tested them on a win7 Enterprise PC, so I know they work and theres nothing wrong with them. I think that GP editor despite looking like the real thing, doesn’t act like it.
complete photo booth says
I think the admin of this web page is genuinely working hard in
support of his website, as here every information is quality based
stuff.
bharrath says
what should i do after installing that…??????
i want to delete search history in windows explorer…
please answer me….!!!!
Mr Jones says
Please, where is the relevant link on the site linked to – Deviantart? All I can find is a link to a smiley thing, and one to a Microsoft forum which is useless.
SteveA says
I just downloaded Gpedit.msc to my Windows 7 Home Premium. It downloaded fine and I can run the program. The correct screens come up. When I enabled ‘Disable changing history settings’ and applied, I was still able to delete the history in Internet Explorer. Can anyone help?
Abhishek says
Click the blue button saying Download – that will lead to the page to download the zip file required to enable Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) in windows 7 home premium or Windows 7 basic.
Steve A says
Abhishek, thanks for the reply. I had loaded the software but I took a second look. It said if I was using Windows 7 I had to copy the two folders and gpedit.msc to the System32 folder, which I did. The program appears to load just fine but I still cannot turn off the delete history function. I will reinstall the software but I don’t think that will work. I will keep working at it and if I figure it out, will let you know. Again, thanks.
Abhishek says
You are welcome. We will be waiting for your confirmation.
From user feedbacks it appears that it probably does not work with certain OEM machines/copies.
waynne says
did everything but there is not a gpedit.msc file in the syswow64 floder
Abhishek Ghosh says
Wayne, as you can see from the comments; it is a kind of luck factor whether you’ll be successful or not – possibly it depends on compilation by either the brand or Microsoft. First we thought, for 64 bit it will not work – but many actually said above, they found to be working.
Possibly reading the comments by Brandon Bachman, Spar07 and Jive Dadson above will help you.