Win7 Home Premium: replacement for gpedit?

pokeefe0001 · 22 Jul 2010

I'm a Win7 newbie and have just run into a shutdown problem involving an M-Audio sound card. The problem was solved a year ago with a .bat file to be run at shutdown, but implementation involved the following steps:
4) Open "run" from start menu and enter "gpedit.msc" (without quotes) and hit "OK"
5) Now navigate from right pain of window "User Configuration" > "Windows Settings" > "scripts (Logon/Logoff)" > "Logoff"
6) From window that opens from clicking "Logoff" Click "Add" then browse to where you saved "Audio Stop.bat" earlier and double click on it.
7) Hit "Apply" and close.

Great! No gpedit in Win7 Home Premium. (Can't trust us with tools like that, I guess.) So how do I do this implementation in Home Edition?

Kirsch · 22 Jul 2010

Unfortunately Home Premium doesn't come with the snap-in

NoN · 22 Jul 2010

pokeefe0001 said:

I'm a Win7 newbie and have just run into a shutdown problem involving an M-Audio sound card. The problem was solved a year ago with a .bat file to be run at shutdown, but implementation involved the following steps:
4) Open "run" from start menu and enter "gpedit.msc" (without quotes) and hit "OK"
5) Now navigate from right pain of window "User Configuration" > "Windows Settings" > "scripts (Logon/Logoff)" > "Logoff"
6) From window that opens from clicking "Logoff" Click "Add" then browse to where you saved "Audio Stop.bat" earlier and double click on it.
7) Hit "Apply" and close.

Great! No gpedit in Win7 Home Premium. (Can't trust us with tools like that, I guess.) So how do I do this implementation in Home Edition?

Can't it be reinstate like it was in XP Home with the Pro version of gpedit.msc?

Kirsch · 22 Jul 2010

Download SolarWinds FREE WMI Monitor : Your best bet

Kirsch · 22 Jul 2010

There is also this Group Policy Registration Table

You can basically edit anything you would using gpedit.msc, except you will have to use regedit and use that table to set the values according to what you wanna do

pokeefe0001 · 22 Jul 2010

Please understand that I'm pretty Windows-ignorant. If I understand what you've said, the structure is the same, but the tool isn't included. (I was afraid maybe the technique for running shutdown scripts had also changed.) So the Home edition provides no tool for incorporating shutdown scripts? I don't think I should try the regedit solution withing seeing EXACTLY what I need to change.

BTW, I don't understand the reference to the Solarwinds WMI Monitor at all. Does it include a group policy editor?

Thorsen · 22 Jul 2010

I think, but not certain. you can run as a Task in Task Scheduler and set the time to during shut-down.... Not sure though.

Kirsch · 22 Jul 2010

pokeefe0001 said:

BTW, I don't understand the reference to the Solarwinds WMI Monitor at all. Does it include a group policy editor?

I believe it has the capabilities to do with gpedit can do, just in a different way.

NoN · 22 Jul 2010

pokeefe0001 said:

Please understand that I'm pretty Windows-ignorant. If I understand what you've said, the structure is the same, but the tool isn't included. (I was afraid maybe the technique for running shutdown scripts had also changed.) So the Home edition provides no tool for incorporating shutdown scripts? I don't think I should try the regedit solution withing seeing EXACTLY what I need to change.

BTW, I don't understand the reference to the Solarwinds WMI Monitor at all. Does it include a group policy editor?

You could read some here:
Microsoft Windows 7 Gpedit.msc | Group Policy Editor | Troubleshooting Home Premium

fseal · 22 Jul 2010

You can perform the same operation using the same batch file by setting up a log off "task" in the task scheduler (Control Panel\System and Security\Schedule Tasks).