I posted a trick for boosting internet speed using GPEdit for XP. Somebody asked, what about Vista? I found that gpedit.msc (group policy editor) is not present for Vista home and premium edition. It does exist in Vista Pro (Ultimate, Business and Enterprise editions). I gave him some tips related to how on windows we can try to increase internet speed for Windows Vista by ‘other’ methods. But we can populate, generate or create gpedit.msc in Windows Vista Home edition by using some tricks.
We can take the necessary files from Vista Ultimate or Business edition and put them in Vista Home to get gpedit back.
We need two packages.
- Group Policy files package
- .ADM files package
The path C:Windowssystem32 contains Group Policy files (in Ultimate Vista) e.g.
gpedit.msc
fde.dll
gpedit.dll
gptext.dll
wsecedit.dll
The path C:WindowsINF contains .ADM files (in Ultimate Vista) e.g.
AER_1025.ADM
AER_1028.ADM
AER_1031.ADM
AER_1033.ADM
AER_1036.ADM
AER_1040.ADM
AER_1041.ADM
AER_1042.ADM
AER_2052.ADM
AER_3082.ADM
conf.adm
inetcorp.adm
inetres.adm
inetset.adm
Search.adm
system.adm
wmplayer.adm
wuau.adm
We will copy these files and paste in Vista Home edition at the same paths in inf and system32 folders. Vista will protest about some files which it already has. It will ask something like: “Are you behind this suspicious activity?” We will confess by clicking yes. Replace all files.
You can search and find ‘Group Policy files package’ and ‘.ADM files package’ online.
Then
Open run dialogie
Run the following commands there one by one:
regsvr32 fde.dll
regsvr32 gpedit.dll
regsvr32 gptext.dll
regsvr32 wsecedit.dll
Windows Vista will again protest that module was loaded but the entry point DllRegisterServer was not found. We will ignore that.
Open run once again
Type: gpedit.msc and Press enter
and there will be Group Policy Editor but with an error.
It says:
MMC could not create snap-in.
Lets find the MMC. Open run, type MMC and press enter.
That will be empty on right side at first. We just click file > add or remove snap-ins and add all left side devils to the right panel and click ok.
It will prompt to save. We just save that console. Finish.
Now snap-ins have been added.
Go to run and try to open gpedit.msc
Again the same problem.
Vista will deny to load snap-ins in gpedit.
We have got the Group Policy Editor in Vista Premium for sure but its empty.
UPDATE: Download GPEDIT VISTA SETUP and install it. It will bring back GPEDIT for all versions of Windows Vista.
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