so anyways im currently trying to rip the gpedit.msc so it can be used by xp home users (I was a foolish sheep that went cheapo and got the home edition and losing the old faithful policy editer (aka poledit.exe for you win9x people))
currently I have pretty much got the thing running but seem to not be able to register/open/use the templates.
im assuming this is simply a registry problem. but it may be also either something making sure that its not running on xp home or simply home handles things loads different and cant use the templates anyways.
I believe its simply registry problems as lets face the facts microsoft dont really try to hard the underlying differences between home and pro are nothing home simply has a load of missing dll's and registry entries. There is no difference in existing dll's/exe's etc.
What im posting here for is if anyone knows anything I dont. AKA is this physically impossible due to the differences in xp home and pro. Do you know what registry settings I have missed and/or any files I have missed.
to "install" simply dump the dll's in the system32 folder in your system32 folder. Dump the "adm" folder in system32grouppolicy and drop all the files directly into system32inf aswell (they appear both places in pro so why not follow suite..)
apply the reg file. and then run gpedit.msc hopefully it starts fine and just shows u a mmc console lacking policy templates.
Other things to note is now you have the option under "add snap-in" to add the "group policy" feature. yet cant click finish.
You can also open mmc then open gpedit.msc from inside mmc.exe see the group policy editer added as a snap-in in mmc, and allows u to see some of the extensions (only several and some are still ****ed due to missing registry entries.)
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so anyways im currently trying to rip the gpedit.msc so it can be used by xp home users (I was a foolish sheep that went cheapo and got the home edition and losing the old faithful policy editer (aka poledit.exe for you win9x people))
currently I have pretty much got the thing running but seem to not be able to register/open/use the templates.
im assuming this is simply a registry problem. but it may be also either something making sure that its not running on xp home or simply home handles things loads different and cant use the templates anyways.
I believe its simply registry problems as lets face the facts microsoft dont really try to hard the underlying differences between home and pro are nothing home simply has a load of missing dll's and registry entries. There is no difference in existing dll's/exe's etc.
What im posting here for is if anyone knows anything I dont. AKA is this physically impossible due to the differences in xp home and pro. Do you know what registry settings I have missed and/or any files I have missed.
to "install" simply dump the dll's in the system32 folder in your system32 folder. Dump the "adm" folder in system32grouppolicy and drop all the files directly into system32inf aswell (they appear both places in pro so why not follow suite..)
apply the reg file. and then run gpedit.msc hopefully it starts fine and just shows u a mmc console lacking policy templates.
Other things to note is now you have the option under "add snap-in" to add the "group policy" feature. yet cant click finish.
You can also open mmc then open gpedit.msc from inside mmc.exe see the group policy editer added as a snap-in in mmc, and allows u to see some of the extensions (only several and some are still ****ed due to missing registry entries.)
http://twistedddx.tripod.com/grouppol.txt (right click "save target as" and rename to .zip)
so far 2 nights work with a friend stealing his files and keys ;)
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