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Registry Help please!
I am new to this forum as well as new to the workings of Windows 7. I have a past degree in computers but am finding out my level of knowledge is way out of date! Thinking on what I knew of windows when I got my degree long ago tried to set user account permissions of what certain users can and can't do on a laptop I bought running Windows 7 Home Premium x64. Upon trying to access the "local security group policy editor" I found out it wasn't there. I googled some insite and from what I found out that the lower versions of windows 7 are missing key components that being one of them. Next I found out how you could add gpedit to my version of windows, this included a installer that altered the system 32 folder by adding group policy and group policy users along with the gpedit folders that the installer added files to. well in the end the "fix" didn't work, and it seems as though i'm not the only one it didn't work for. some say it worked exactly as it said it should both on the 32 and 64 bit OS. Now I am wondering if there is some way I can find out exactly what my registry should look like in these folders as it was on a fresh install. Or better yet...if anyone really knows exactly how to add gpedit and have the snap in work fully?