If you change a large number of settings in the Local Group Policy Editor and now want to find all of them group policy settings applied or enabled on your Windows 10 system, here is what you need to do. The Local Group Policy Editor plays a vital role in adjusting various system settings, and improper modification can make or break your smooth user experience. If you’ve made a change and can’t remember the way, here’s how to find it.
There are four different ways to get a list of all of the activated or applied changes that you have made in the Local Group Policy Editor, and these are mentioned below.
How to Check Group Policy Applied on a Computer
There are four ways to find all the Group Policy settings applied or enabled in Windows 10:
- Use the State option of the local Group Policy editor
- Use the filter in the local group policy editor
- Use the command line
- Use the resulting strategy toolset (rsop.msc)
To learn more about these methods, read on.
1]Use the State option of the local Group Policy editor
It is the easiest method to find all enabled, disabled and unconfigured policies in a matter of moments. The best thing is that you don’t have to go through a complex step to do it. One click can show you all the changes on your screen.
Open the local Group Policy editor on your computer. To do this, press Win + R, type gpedit.msc and press the Enter button. After that, look for a folder on your left. If you don’t want to get the list by folder and you want to get the same across the local Group Policy Editor, you need to expand Administrative Templates and select All parameters option.
Then you should see all the settings on your right. It should display a column called State. You must click on the text “Status”.
Now your local Group Policy Editor should display all of the enabled settings at the top of the line. From there, you can follow the usual method to make a change if necessary.
2]Use the filter in the local group policy editor
Microsoft has included the “filter” option in the local Group Policy editor so that users can apply many conditions to find a specific type of setting. You can use this function to find all the parameters activated or applied in this tool. To get started, you must right-click on a folder after opening the Local Group Policy Editor and select Filtering options.
You can also access Action> Filtering options. Then select Yes of configured drop-down list and click the OK button.
Now you can only find folders that contain an enabled setting.
3]Use the command line
This is another easy way to find all the Group Policy settings enabled on a Windows PC. All you need to do is enter a command that will allow you to view all the settings and the exact path to find it in the local Group Policy Editor.
First, open the command prompt on your Windows computer and enter this command-
gpresult /Scope User /v
You should see the results.
4]Use the resulting strategy toolset (rsop.msc)
It is a built-in Windows operating system tool that allows users to see all of the Group Policy settings that have been applied to your computer. It is a graphical version of the command, as mentioned earlier, and the user interface is almost the same as the Local Group Policy Editor.
To start, open the Run prompt by pressing Win + R keys together, type rsop.mscand press the Enter button. It should take a few seconds to load everything, and at the end, you can find a window like this-
You now need to access the folders to check which setting is applied to your computer. The good news is that it only shows folders where you can find an activated setting or policy. Please note that this tool does not allow you to change the setting.
These are some of the best methods to find all the Group Policy settings applied or enabled in Windows 10.