group policy group policy pain

[Wubzei]

okay so i got windows 10 home ik i screwed but whatever i used a work around and moved grouppolicy folders and installed gpedit and i can open and look but search is missing and the admin templates are grayed out, so am i an idiot or am i just missing something simple? im by no means a tech guru or wizard but im not a absolute moron either, im running out of ideas and material to google, any help would be appreciated im just trying to disable useless windows 10 features id rather not have drawing power. Templates are already added when i started (conf,inetres,system,wmplayer,wuau)

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just get win 10 pro. 

 

You don't need gp for this you cna use regeit.

 

[GoodBytes]

Sorry, we can't help you on this, as you are doing piracy. So now you are doing something unsupported, so it would mostly waste our time. Beside you can do it from the registry, as you you are not on a domain, so that was useless. Sorry

 

What feature of Windows do you want disabled that is "drawing power" (even if it doesn't, and group policy won't really help you even if it were to work in your case)?

 

[Wubzei]

 

Already have been debating that but i got win 10 home like not even a month ago, Didn't do my research for once and got bit in the ass, hopefully avoiding spending another $100. And thank you, opened regedit and had to do a bit of searching but found they moved the windows search folder to a new spot with a newer update, now i got it working.  Bye cortana and windows defender aswell as useless bluetooth.

9 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

Sorry, we can't help you, as you are doing piracy. So now you are doing unsupported something, so it would mostly waste our time.

However, what I can say, is that you can do it all from the registry. You don't need any of the work you did.

How is this piracy? gpedit isnt included but the policy and group files are? I own my copy of windows sooooo....... (i only used group policy cause i had read that it can work to disable certain files, ik regedit is gonna be better but with what i assume was the creators update that moved around certain folders and made it so i could not find what i was looking for)

[GoodBytes]

10 hours ago, Wubzei said:

How is this piracy? gpedit isnt included but the policy and group files are? I own my copy of windows sooooo....... (i only used group policy cause i had read that it can work to disable certain files, ik regedit is gonna be better but with what i assume was the creators update that moved around certain folders and made it so i could not find what i was looking for)

Well... you don't own Windows, no one here does. You own a LICENSE to use Windows. And laws in many countries including U.S and Canada states that going against the license agreement is considered piracy. Unlocking features of Windows edition you have, goes beyond what was permitted to use based on your license, and that is and that is piracy.. In fact, nearly all software that aren't open source, with a few exceptions, you don't own. It is all licensed based. This is why you have the big text that you agree to before downloading or installing a program. And actually, even open source project are license based, but allows you to do what you want beside selling it directly without modification (you can only sale your modifications), and in some cases you need to make your code open source as well, all depending on the license of using the open source code.

 

But anyway, as mentioned, gpedit is not needed in any case, as you saw

 

[Wubzei]

10 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Well... you don't own Windows, no one here does. You own a LICENSE to use Windows. And laws in many countries including U.S and Canada states that going against the license agreement is considered piracy. Unlocking features of Windows edition you have, goes beyond what was permitted to use based on your license, and that is and that is piracy.. In fact, nearly all software that aren't open source, with a few exceptions, you don't own. It is all licensed based. This is why you have the big text that you agree to before downloading or installing a program. And actually, even open source project are license based, but allows you to do what you want beside selling it directly without modification (you can only sale your modifications), and in some cases you need to make your code open source as well, all depending on the license of using the open source code.

 

But anyway, as mentioned, gpedit is not needed in any case, as you saw

 

How does microsofts dick taste? unlocking a feature that dosent come with it is borderline piracy and i yes i know i own a license you need to hop off your high horse do i care enough to 100% properly articulate my point? no cause i dont know you and i can already tell id hate you, they leave everything but the actual application in the operating system, TECHNICALLY i own a licence to every copy of windows since 98' (i own my own business and so did my father, we both use servers to connect our terminals and i have physical copies of every basically every edition home to server) my father before he passed preferred running newer copies of windows since his employees did, I on the other hand hate it and am happily fine with windows 7, but now with games certain new games wont run on windows 7 so i have to upgrade my personal pc's and am i gonna spend another $200 for a pro copy no the fucks have already gotten thousands of dollars from me i dont think they need to bleed everyone for every last cent, besides home editions will run better if not the same compared to their more feature filled counter parts, why sacrifice even 1 frame when i can save money and have the same copy. But i count those as business assets so i dont use them for personal use. I keep my own copy so i may use whenever i need or want. I own plenty of pirate copies of windows aswell as legitimate copies, i customize my OS when possible for maximum efficiency. Microsoft practices milking of the consumer which i dont really agree with, how is removing features and trying to lock me out of being able to disable others a good practice? im not a teen girl downloading her favorite songs from shitty sites thats filled with viruses. Do you enjoy being told what your allowed to do and not by a corporation thats selling you a product? Microsoft loves playing god, or police, or lawmaker whatever you call it and it gets worse and worse every year, gpedit is useful and a main feature i use to limit the operating systems on my companys terminals, i learned and grew up with XP and windows 7 (AKA prefull greed mode) where you got all useful features and enterprise and server copys were that, they only included server or enterprise useful software, not bloatware. Back to Toms Hardware!