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In this article, we will target on How to Check the Group Policy Applied on Your Computer. The Local Group Policy Editor plays a critical role in managing and configuring various system settings. Incorrect and improper changes to policy settings can disrupt your smooth user experience with your computer. If you do a lot of changes to the settings in the Local Group Policy Editor and now you are intending to check all the applied or enabled Group Policy settings on your computer, well, you have come to the right place. Now, let's get started to learn how to check the group policy applied on a computer.
"How to check the group policy applied on my computer?" Are you curious about this question? Actually steps to do that are not complex in your computer. You can check all the Enabled, Disabled, and Not configured policies directly from the State column in Local Group Policy Editor. Here is what you need to do.
Step 1. Press the Windows + R key to invoke the Run dialog box, type "gpedit.msc" without quotes into the blank and tap on the OK button to continue. Then Windows will open the Local Group Policy Editor window for you.
Step 2. Now you can choose to see all applied computer configuration policies or all applied user configuration policies. To see all applied computer configuration policies, on the left sidebar of the Local Group Policy Editor, double click to expand Administrative Templates under Computer Configuration. Then click the option of All Settings.
To see all applied user configuration policies, double click to expand Administrative Templates under User Configuration. Then click the option of All Settings.
Step 3. Then you will see all the settings are displayed on the right panel and you can see all the settings' states from the State column. In order to check group policy applied or enabled to your computer, you can click the column title of State (arrow upward at this moment) to sort policy settings by state in ascending order.
Then you will discover that the Local Group Policy Editor displays the policy setting whose state is Enabled or Disabled on the top of the column and above any policy setting whose state is Not configured.
You can make use of the Filter Options in the Local Group Policy Editor to select the type of policy settings to display so that you can apply several conditions to find a specific type of policy setting. How to check group policy applied to computer using the Filter Options? Now follow the below steps to learn how to do that.
Step 1. Open Local Group Policy Editor on your computer.
Step 2. In the left pane of the Local Group Policy Editor, right click Administrative Templates under Computer Configuration or User Configuration according to your need, and then select the option of Filter Options from the drop-down menu.
Step 3. In the Filter Options panel, under the section of Select the type of policy settings to display, click the down arrow to expand the Configured drop menu, choose the option of Yes, and then click the OK button to proceed.
Now that you have set the type of policy settings to display, only the policy settings that have been configured, in other words, the states are Enabled and Disabled, will now be listed. Then you can check all applied group policies from those folders displayed.
How to check if group policy applied on your computer if you have done some changes to the policy settings? Another option for you is to use the tool of Resultant Set of Policy (rsop.msc). It is a built-in utility in Windows OS which can help you see all the Group Policy settings that have applied to your computer. The user interface is very similar to Local Group Policy Editor. Now have a try as per the following instructions.
Step 1. Bring up the Run dialog box by pressing the Win+R keys at the same time, type rsop.msc, and then tap the Enter key to continue.
Step 2. You will get a window on the computer screen which shows that Resultant Set of Policy is being processed. The Resultant Set of Policy tool will start scanning your system for applied group policies, so wait for a moment patiently.
Step 3. After the scanning is finished, you will come to the Resultant Set of Policy window. Only the Enabled and Disabled policy settings will be displayed under Computer Configuration and User Configuration in Resultant Set of Policy. Now you can navigate to the folders to check which setting is applied to your computer.
The last but not least option for you to check all the enabled or applied Group Policy settings in your computer is to enter a command in Command Prompt. Then you will be shown all settings and the exact path to find it in the Local Group Policy Editor.
Step 1. Type command prompt in the Windows search blank, right click the best matched result and select Run as administrator to go on.
Step 2. To check all policies applied to your Computer, enter the command of "gpresult /Scope Computer /v" without quotes in the command prompt and press Enter in order to run this command.
Step 3. Wait for a while and then you will see the information about all settings and the exact path to find it in the Local Group Policy Editor from the command prompt.
Note: If you want to check all policies applied to your user account, you should enter the command of "gpresult /Scope User /v" without quotes and then press Enter to run it.
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