Group Policy Folder in Windows 10

Question

_{Friday, July 21, 2017 8:26 AM}

Hi All,

In windows 10, machine policy folder i.e. "%systemroot%\system32\grouppolicy\ has two folders named Machine and User.

Registry.pol exists in machine folder but why there is another Registry.pol file exist in User folder as well.

Does its related to any of machine policies or not.

All replies (2)

_{Monday, July 24, 2017 2:20 AM}

Yes, on my computer, the situation is same. But, it is related to user configuration rather than machine(computer) configuration.

What’s Registry.pol Files

The Administrative Templates snap-in extension of Group Policy saves information in the Group Policy template in Unicode files referred to as Registry.pol files. They are stored in the Group Policy template. These files contain the customized registry settings that you specify (by using the Group Policy Object Editor) to be applied to the Computer (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) or User (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) portion of the registry.

When you use the Administrative Templates extension of the Group Policy Object Editor to define customized registry settings, two Registry.pol files are created and stored in the Group Policy template. One Registry.pol file is for Computer Configuration-related registry settings and is stored in the \Machine sub-directory, and the other is for User Configuration settings and is stored in the \User sub-directory.

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_{Wednesday, July 26, 2017 6:57 AM}

Would you mind letting me know the update of the problem? If you need further assistance, feel free to let me know. I will be more than happy to be of assistance.

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