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Is there an alternative to gpedit.msc for "Home" versions of Windows (ie: Vista Home Premium)?

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The gpedit.msc is basically a front-end for various registry settings.

Microsoft published a document called Group Policy Settings Reference which "displays the Group Policy settings in the Administrative Templates folder and the registry entries that they change".

You can open the Registry Editor and change the key listed in the table.

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    Thank you, this worked. (And I am now considering writing a front end to these keys, but manually regeditting them will work for now.) – MiffTheFox Sep 13 '09 at 04:26
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    @Albic, Is http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms815238.aspx the full list? – Pacerier Nov 16 '14 at 00:29
  • @Pacerier: It appears it's not the full list. I couldn't find the "Always use custom login background" item under the Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon section as described in the How-To Geek article How to Set a Custom Logon Screen Background. – Alex Essilfie Aug 29 '15 at 08:16
  • Additionally, @MiffTheFox: The page (and its links) do not specify in detail what values must be written to the registry; it only states the registry key and the entry which holds the value. You'll therefore need a working version of Group Policy Editor to test the values being written to the registry. Kindly send me a message if you decide to undertake this task. I will be glad to contribute. – Alex Essilfie Aug 29 '15 at 08:23
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    This is the Windows 2000 list, and is heavily outdated. The current version can be found here. – Bob Oct 11 '15 at 06:33
  • @AlexEssilfie: see my answer to the "duplicate" question for a site which also has all the values for the entries. Also, the How-To Geek article has a typo: it should be "Always use custom logon background", as their screenshot shows. – lapis Apr 05 '17 at 20:14
  • I improved the edit suggestion to be https, because the edit that was in the queue, wasn't https and thus would have failed the current requirement of all links being https. I also pointed the link to the en-us link, since the original link, was en-us not en-au – Ramhound Apr 05 '17 at 20:51
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this site offers free gpedit for win10 add on... https://www.itechtics.com/enable-gpedit-windows-10-home/ I've not checked code so unsure how safe it is but sounds good to me, maybe someone can verify the code?

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