gpedit, the neverending saga

 This won't warm your cornflakes...ya know what, stop reading, go away.

It's just the confident stupidity of real smart people spreading misinformation unintentionally.

How to install gpedit.msc (group edit) into windows 11 home?

The answers are there, they just forget to add stuff.

Like, the command "FOR...DO" needs an opening parentheses?

Or, in a batch file, variables (%Imavariable%) is wrong because batch-files need double percent symbols (%%Imavariable%%)?

I'm so close...I feel like Einstein dropped some notes only he would understand,

or like it's algebra-class all over again.

Two sentences I have not been able to enter for a ^%$# hour:

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")

note that I edited in the extra percent sign.

Note that I um, created a batch file to use at an administrative command prompt.

The command prompt, BTW, needs to run as an administrator.

"Runas administrator" won't run because the administrator's account is disabled anyway.

ctrl-shift-enter works fine, I don't know why they came up with "runas".

This blog entry is incomplete because none of this works (yet.)

WHyyyy am I doing this??????

O, yeah. 

They wanted to make it difficult, if not impossible, to disable "Copilot", not just have it lurking in the hallways spying on everything I do.

"Group edit" is a solution, I've been told.
Group edit exists on Home-edition, it's just difficult if not impossible to enable.

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

%%F was unexpected at this time.

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

%%F was unexpected at this time.

The second F is problematic

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 appears to be working, but since only results count, I won't know for a while.

The above couple of inscrutable commands must be executed 

in a batch file.

The batch file must be run by "CMD.EXE" raised (ctrl-shift-enter) to administrative privileges. Beeecause, powershell is a whole different level of inscrutable and esoteric.

"Terminal" might be the new command-prompt, I would not know nor care much.

Is it working?

I'm waiting.

It looks like the operation was successful, but the patient died anyway.

Now I lay me down to sleep...

(fucket)

GPEDIT.MSC installed!! I think.
I mean, there's that weird error above, and it just sat there, so I will suspect stuff is missing.

365 copilot is still running...

"cuz we're snooty and you're not upper crust, nyah"

I've wanted to know, since yesterday, which games will run on this?
Not anime virtual novels, but honest to goodness games.

Wouldn't virtual novels be better on phones anyway?
If your eyes are still razor sharp at close range.

Mine are not.

Well, "Outer worlds Spacer's choice" might have worked, and I downloaded it, but getting off my ship, I went blind. Bright yellow and I could barely make out a hill or two.

No, there was no configuration file, no display selection for HDR.

Well, now they are saying that "Baldur's gate 3" works. I don't trust these people anymore.

Still-pictures with dialogue bore me.

a shoot-em-up might ruin my keyboard.

Car-driving games might work if you steer with the track pad.

I'm seriously overbudget!! Caligula died and moved away and I took his place.

so yeah, I own baldur's gate.

Maybe if I walked really slowly??

"Life is strange" is another title they push.

It's a small book of pictures, and I know the ending.

Then they mention "Skyrim" but that needs 10 zillion mods to be fun.

Not helpful at all
seriously, a "4090"?