1. Gpedit Not Working Windows 10
2. Windows 10 Gpedit.msc Does Not Exist In California

Windows 10 automatically restart the PC whenever it installed updates that required a mandatory reboot in order to finish installed. User can no longer delay or postpone a restart indefinitely. The best a user can do is to schedule a time for Windows to automatically reboot, or since Windows 10 Anniversary Update, set an active hours which Windows definitely won’t restart the device.

In this video, we will see how to enable group policy editor in windows 10 home edition. The group policy editor option is not available in windows 10 home edition. So please watch full video to. Instead, files that already exist within your operating system are used to install Group Policy Editor. While Windows Home doesn't have gpedit.msc installed, all of the data necessary for the.

After installing updates that required a reboot to finish installing, Windows would normally ask user to restart. If the user does not restart the OS after a certain period of time, Windows 10 may start to show warning that operating system is going to restart at a specific time or after a certain duration of time. Eventually, Windows 10 will automatically restart, with or without user’s consent. Theoretically, Windows would only restart the computer automatically when user is not using the computer, but it’s not always the case. In fact, sometimes Windows 10 may wake up the computer to install the updates, and then auto-reboot.

If you’re not fond of surprise or unpredictable Windows restart due to Windows Update, or face the situation when updates take a long time to install during the reboot, there are several steps that you can take to avoid automatic restart after installing updates. The following tutorials will guide you on how to prevent and stop Windows 10 from automatic restarting after updates are installed, permanently.

Disable Reboot Task

1. Open Control Pane from Windows 10 Power Users Quick Access menu.
2. Go to System and Security ->Administrative Tools.
3. Open Task Scheduler.
4. In Task Scheduler, expand the Task Scheduler tree to go to Task Scheduler Library ->Microsoft ->Windows ->UpdateOrchestrator.
5. Right click on Reboot task, and Disable it.
6. Windows 10 will attempt to sneakily re-enable the Reboot task automatically. To stop the re-enabling of Reboot task, open File Explorer, and navigate to the following folder:

   %Windows%System32TasksMicrosoftWindowsUpdateOrchestrator

7. Right click on the Reboot file (without extension), and select Properties. Go to Security tab then hit Advanced button. Change the ownership to your own user account. Then, hit “Change permissions”, and disable the inheritance of permissions, and all permissions (i.e. SYSTEM, LOCAL SERVICE and your user account) to read or read & execute only (ensure that no write, modify or full control permission is granted). This ensure of Windows OS cannot make any changes to the Reboot task.

   Alternatively, rename the Reboot file to another name, such as Reboot.bak (you may need to take ownership of the file). Then create a new folder and name it as “Reboot” to prevent the task with the same name been created again.

Third-Party Utilities that Block or Prevent Shutdown & Restart

There are several software utilities that can prevent, stop and abort the shutdown and restart process.

Group Policy

There is a group policy which a user can set to disable the auto-restart, but YMMV as many people reported that Windows 10 ignores the policy when comes to mandatory reboot required for installing updates. Officially, the group policy applies only when Automatic Updates is configured to perform scheduled installations of updates. If the “Configure Automatic Updates” policy is disabled, this policy has no effect.

To configure the policy, open Local Group Policy Editor (GPEdit.msc), the navigate to Computer Configuration ->Administrative Templates ->Windows Components ->Windows Update. Set the status of No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations to Enabled so that Automatic Updates will not restart a computer automatically during a scheduled installation if a user is logged in to the computer. Instead, Automatic Updates will notify the user to restart the computer.

If you’re using Home edition of Windows 10, probably you won’t find the Local Group Policy Editor. You can set the value via Registry Editor (RegEdit) at the following registry key (create the keys if they’re not exist or not found):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsWindowsUpdateAU

Then, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value, and name it as NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers, then set its value as 1.

Prevent Updates from Installing

Windows 10 needs to reboot because some updates require mandatory restart. If no updates are installed, then no automatic restart will be done.

There are several ways to stop updates from installing in Windows 10:

1. If the PC is connected only to Wi-Fi network, set the wireless connection as metered connection. When a computer is connected to metered connection (normally used when tethering to phone connected to mobile 3G or 4G network with limited bandwidth cap), Windows 10 will not download and install the updates automatically.

   To set a Wi-Fi network as metered connection, open Settings app, go to Network & Internet ->Wi-Fi. Then, click or tap on Advanced options link (prior to Windows 10 Anniversary Update) or on the Wi-Fi network name itself (Windows 10 Anniversary Update or later). Toggle the Set as metered connection to On.

2. Force the Windows Update to only download updates, but wait for user input to start installing (hence therefore reboot). To do so, open Local Group Policy Editor (GPEdit.msc), the navigate to Computer Configuration ->Administrative Templates ->Windows Components ->Windows Update. Double click Configure Automatic Updates and select Enabled. Then configure it to use either option 2 – Notify for download and notify for install or 3 – Auto download and notify for install.

   After applying the settings, Windows Update will wait for user to hit the “Install” button before installing any updates.

   If you’re using Windows 10 Home edition, probably you won’t find the Local Group Policy Editor. You can set the value via Registry Editor (RegEdit) at the following registry key (create the keys if they’re not exist or not found):

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsWindowsUpdateAU

   Then, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value, and name it as AUOptions, then set its value as either 2 (Notify for download and notify for install) or 3 (Auto download and notify for install).

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Security Tab Missing and Present:

Security Tab Missing

Security Tab Missing issue has been bugging us for a long time. When you want to change the security settings of a Windows folder, You Right-click the respective folder and then click on properties.
However, to your dismay, you find the security tab missing from folder properties. This has nothing to do with Windows file permissions or Windows folder permissions. But, you will need the Windows security tab to modify Windows permissions. What do you do if you are in such a situation?

This might probably help:

Saint row 2 mods. a. Open Local Group Policy Editor by typing gpedit.msc in the Cortana search bar and press enter.
b. In the left pane, click on User Configuration => Administrative Templates => Windows Components => and click on File Explorer.
c. In the right pane, right click on “Remove Security tab” and click on Edit.
d. Ensure Disabled is selected.

The above steps will fix the issue in most cases, but what will you do if you are unable to find Windows Components or File Explorer in the group policy editor?

Follow the below steps to bail you out of the frustration. The given method can be used to fix most of the issues related to group policy editor ‘Administrative Templates’ corruption. It can fix missing Windows Components related to Sharing, Previous versions, and Customize tab in Folder Properties, including no security tab issue.

Go to => C:WindowsPolicyDefinitions and rename the ‘PolicyDefinitions folder’ to PolicyDefinitions.OLD

Download the Administrative Templates (.admx) MSI file for Windows 10 from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=53430
Save it to the Desktop.

You can alternatively download the admx MSI file from here

Run the saved ADMX.msi File. (select option: for all users)

By default, it is installed in C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Group PolicyWindows 10 and Windows Server 2016

Go to => C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Group PolicyWindows 10 and Windows Server 2016 =>PolicyDefinitions

Finally, Copy the PolicyDefinitions folder and paste it into C:Windows

After Step 5, gpedit.msc will show the missing file explorer etc., under Administrative Templates => Windows Components. Now you can make the required changes.

a. Open Local Group Policy Editor by typing gpedit.msc in the Cortana search bar and press enter.
b. In the left pane, click on User Configuration => Administrative Templates => Windows Components => and click on File Explorer.
c. In the right pane, right click on “Remove Security tab” and click on Edit.
d. Ensure Disabled is selected.

Voila! The Security tab is back in Windows Folder Properties. In the file folder tabs.

In some situations, you might need to update the Group Policy settings for it to work.

Open Command Prompt in Admin mode.
Right-click Windows Start Menu, Select Command Prompt(Admin)

Copy and Paste the below command in the CMD window.

gpupdate /force

Hit Enter, Type Exit to close the command prompt window.

Note:

windowsexplorer.admx is the file associated with the security tab in Windows folder. If only that particular file is missing from C:WindowsPolicyDefinitions folder you can try to copy and paste only that file from the C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Group PolicyWindows 10 and Windows Server 2016 =>PolicyDefinitions folder.

For the enterprising, The .admx files can be opened and edited with notepad or notepad++. These are actually XML files.

In case you need a bit more information, The Reference Guide for Group Policy Settings lists in an Excel spreadsheet.
It includes all the information about the Group Policy settings available in Windows 10. You can download it from here.

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