How to enable GPEdit.msc in Windows 10 Home Edition

By default gpedit.msc is not enabled on Windows 10 Home (inclusing 7/8.1 editions). The good news it’s possible to enable this feature.

@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

Copy the above code to a batch script / powershell and execute it with administrative rights.

After executing I advice you to reboot. After rebooting you notice that gpedit.msc is now working :

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