What is the difference between gpedit.msc and regedit

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Post Views: 2, Featured Links. Featured Product. Join Our Newsletter Learn about the latest security threats, system optimization tricks, and the hottest new technologies in the industry. Thank you for the response with those screenshots. It really helps me a lot. I am sorry for my late response.

I have double checked each setting on my member server as follows. I open gpedit. I don't know why there is difference between gpresult and gpedit. One more thing I am not sure is if it is reallly applied from GPO, it should be greyed-out here, but it is not. It is editable. I also open regedit, and check the registory key of the setting, and it said "enabled" there. It means only gpedit said "Not Configure". I am confused First of all, according to your information, we can know that the policy redirect only the default client printer is successfully applied to the target computer.

Then,based on my knowledge, gpedit shows the local configuration while gpresult shows the final configuration of the machine. In your scenario, the domain one is configured but the local one isn't. That's why gpedit is different from gpresult. The gpedit shows only the local configuration. Since you haven't Enabled the policy there, it shows not configured.

It will not be affected by the domain configuration. It will not show Enabled correspondingly. Even if you configure the policy with disable in gpedit, the finally applied one will be enabled in that domain is prior to local in terms of GPO applying. And the gpresult and registry will be Enabled since they shows the final configuration.

I am sorry for my bad English to make you confused. Let me explain my situation again. I understand gpedit. My question is in my member server which is Windows Server R2, if it is GPO is already sat up, it is showed up as greyed-out and it is non-editable on gpedit. Here is the example. This is screenshot of gpresult. I have confirmed "Enforce password history" is sat up by GPO. Open gpedit. My original question is most of GPO are showed up as greyed-out and non-editable on gpedit. Just curious..

Thank you very much for testing them on your lab and spending a lot of time for my question. I am very impressed your hard work and great support. You are real IT person.

Big respect. Have a great weekend! Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Learn More. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter davidhk Start date Oct 31, Joined Nov 20, Messages 2, Reaction score Professional OS or high will use gpedit. Now that I can use both in Win 10 , I'd like to know what are the differences; when to use one over the other etc.

Thank you. Trouble Noob Whisperer Moderator. Joined Nov 19, Messages 13, Reaction score 2, The one group policy editor simply provides a more user friendly interface to perform edits to the windows registry. That coupled with the "Explain" tab makes it more useable for the most part. Post reply. Ask a Question Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question? Ask a Question.