gpedit not installed correctly after upgrade from home to pro

jacobacci · Oct 19, 2025

I should have known better. I tried to manually install gpedit on a Win 11 Home laptop. The install did not run through completely and left me with a gpedit that throws up error messages about missing components when it tries to launch.
So next I upgraded Win 11 Home to Pro, hoping that gpedit would complete installation and work. But it is still showing the same error messages about missing components.
I then tried to manually install gpedit again, but it wont go beyond the first install command.
How can I "reset" or completely reinstall gepedit?

Thierry 83200 · Oct 19, 2025

try this and rename it to .bat all files

jacobacci · Oct 19, 2025

Thanks a lot Thierry. The batch file ran through, but I am still getting the following error message:

OAT · Oct 19, 2025

jacobacci said:
Thanks a lot Thierry. The batch file ran through, but I am still getting the following error message:

How many files do you have in

Code:

C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions

?

Within that folder, you may also have additional folders for each language pack installed.
The file AccountNotifications.admx content is:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--  (c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation  -->
<policyDefinitions xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" revision="1.0" schemaVersion="1.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions">
  <policyNamespaces>
    <target prefix="accountnotifications" namespace="Microsoft.Policies.AccountNotifications" />
    <using prefix="windows" namespace="Microsoft.Policies.Windows" />
  </policyNamespaces>
  <resources minRequiredRevision="1.0" />
  <categories>
    <category name="AccountNotifications" displayName="$(string.AccountNotifications)">
      <parentCategory ref="windows:WindowsComponents" />
    </category>
  </categories>
  <policies>
    <policy name="DisableAccountNotifications" class="User" displayName="$(string.DisableAccountNotifications)" explainText="$(string.DisableAccountNotificationsExplain)" key="SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AccountNotifications" valueName="DisableAccountNotifications">
      <parentCategory ref="AccountNotifications" />
      <supportedOn ref="windows:SUPPORTED_Windows_10_0_20H1_NOSERVER" />
      <enabledValue>
        <decimal value="1" />
      </enabledValue>
      <disabledValue>
        <decimal value="0" />
      </disabledValue>
    </policy>
  </policies>
</policyDefinitions>

jacobacci · Oct 19, 2025

There are 222 Files in C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions
The content of AccountNotifications.admx is

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--  (c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation  -->
<policyDefinitions xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" revision="1.0" schemaVersion="1.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions">
  <policyNamespaces>
    <target prefix="accountnotifications" namespace="Microsoft.Policies.AccountNotifications" />
    <using prefix="windows" namespace="Microsoft.Policies.Windows" />
  </policyNamespaces>
  <resources minRequiredRevision="1.0" />
  <categories>
    <category name="AccountNotifications" displayName="$(string.AccountNotifications)">
      <parentCategory ref="windows:WindowsComponents" />
    </category>
  </categories>
  <policies>
    <policy name="DisableAccountNotifications" class="User" displayName="$(string.DisableAccountNotifications)" explainText="$(string.DisableAccountNotificationsExplain)" key="SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AccountNotifications" valueName="DisableAccountNotifications">
      <parentCategory ref="AccountNotifications" />
      <supportedOn ref="windows:SUPPORTED_Windows_10_0_20H1_NOSERVER" />
      <enabledValue>
        <decimal value="1" />
      </enabledValue>
      <disabledValue>
        <decimal value="0" />
      </disabledValue>
    </policy>
  </policies>
</policyDefinitions>

OAT · Oct 19, 2025

The needed files seem to be there but the botched installation seem to have created havoc.
Is that what you tried originally?

Code:

@echo off
pushd "%~dp0"

dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~3*.mum >List.txt
dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~3*.mum >>List.txt

for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . List.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i"
pause

jacobacci · Oct 19, 2025

this is what I did:

Code:

FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F")
FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F")

Spunk · Oct 19, 2025

Can you uninstall the previous GpEdit app?

Do the regular troubleshooting. Open a Command Prompt as Admin. Copy and Paste or type
DISM /Online /CLEANUP-IMAGE /RestoreHealth and press Enter. When that finishes type
SFC /scannow and press Enter.
Until you see the message "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations"

OAT · Oct 19, 2025

jacobacci said:

this is what I did:

Code:

FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F")
FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F")

This doesn't seem to create the file list as a .txt which is then used to grab the necessary package version.
The result might be the same but you could try to use the batch I posted.
It will not do further damage anyway.

OAT · Oct 19, 2025

Spunk said:
Can you uninstall the previous GpEdit app?

Do the regular troubleshooting. Open a Command Prompt as Admin. Copy and Paste or type
DISM /Online /CLEANUP-IMAGE /RestoreHealth and press Enter. When that finishes type
SFC /scannow and press Enter.
Until you see the message "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations"

That might be wiser to go that route.

jacobacci · Oct 20, 2025

DISM /Online /CLEANUP-IMAGE /RestoreHealth and press Enter. When that finishes type
SFC /scannow and press Enter.

This ran through ok, but the error message persisted.

I managed to solve the issue by copying the C:\Windows\Policy Definitions folder from a working machine to the troubled machine. I had to change permissions to copy the files by doing:

takeown /f %windir%\Policydefinitions /r /a
icacls %windir%\PolicyDefinitions /grant Administrators

OI)(CI)F /t

Now everything seems ok.
Do I need to do something to revert permissions to default?

OAT · Oct 20, 2025

jacobacci said:
Do I need to do something to revert permissions to default?

The administrators group being the owner should not give you any issues.
Time to leave GPE files alone.

Spunk · Oct 20, 2025

Changing permission on Windows is tricky because there is no way to switch back to default permission once you change it.

If your computer is running smoothly, than make an Image file of your computer using 3rd party app like the Free Hasleo Backup
Suite and save the image to a USB HDD to restore if things go wrong again.

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