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What are Group Policies used for?
Group policies are used to change system controls according to the users needs.
Different group policy objects can be applied to different users.
The scope of local group policy is the local users of that specific computer.
Domain group policy is applied from the Windows Server Active Directory Domain Controller to computers connected to that domain.
These are web link wide policies which are normally handled by sysadmins.
How to check which Group Policies are applied?
There are two ways to know what policies have been applied to your box, or your user.
Head on to Run and bang out inrsop.msc.
Once the scan is complete, which usually takes about 10 seconds, the RSOP window shall open.
thegpresultis a useful command to be used with the correct parameters to provide the relevant information.
Note that this will only work if the policies are applied locally and not applied through a Domain Controller.
The default setting of all policies is set to Not configured.
This may be a long approach but can be used for selective resetting.
If you wish to reset all policies to their default state, follow on to the next step.
Dont worry, as the folder is regenerated with the default value automatically.
To remove your system from the domain, go to Run > systempropertiescomputername.
This will bring up the computer properties window.
choose the Change button and then select Workgroup instead of the domain.
Restart the system once done.
On the next boot, the domain applied group policies will no longer be effective.
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