Does Vista Home Basic not have GPEdit?

[zealalot]

I keep seeing great Vista security tutorials in which they use GPEdit.msc to
change a setting. Unfortunately, I'm running Vista Home Basic and have yet
to find this program. Am I missing something?

Thanks!

-Zealalot

 

[Dave]

The Home versions do not have the group policy editor.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows Vista Basic edition does not include Group Policy Editor.
You may be interested in this free program:

Windows SteadyState Version 2.5
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx

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I keep seeing great Vista security tutorials in which they use GPEdit.msc to
change a setting. Unfortunately, I'm running Vista Home Basic and have yet
to find this program. Am I missing something?

Thanks!

-Zealalot

 

[DDW]

Try the new Windows Vista Answers Forums:

If Carey's there, stay away like it's got the plague.

DDW

 

[Drezpc]

Yes, all versions of Vista except Home Basic and Home Premium use
GPEdit.msc, recommend you upgrade.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

Welcome to M$ marketing. Vista Home <any version> doesn't have the code
and utilities turned on to connect to a Windows domain. Thus, tools like
GPEdit (Group Policy Edit) don't exist for them, even though they may have
uses in non-domain environments. This is why I recommend Vista Ultimate
to people who ask me which version of Vista to get.

In XP Pro, I had the ability to edit group policies but not the ability to
apply them, or at least the documentation I read said that I had to be in a
domain to use group policies. So Vista is not different in that manner.

In a G4 cable television show, they explained how to set the registry to
hide drives. The setting is a group policy setting. Perhaps they just did
not know that the setting could be modified easier using group policies, but
I think the main reason they did not know is because most of their viewers
were not in a domain and therefore could not use (apply) the group policies
normally. I wrote the following to automate what was described in the G4
show.

Hide Your Drives Sample
http://simplesamples.info/Scripts/HideDrives.php

Also, someone wrote a utility that does something with group policies but I
cannot remember whether it edited them or applied them and I can't find the
utility now. It cost about $10.