Windows 10: How to Reset All Local Group Policy Settings

Group Policies in Windows 10 have three states: Enabled, Disabled, and Not configured. It's the “Not configured” option that follows your system's default state, and as a result, this is the best pick if you want to get your PC back to normal functioning.

That said, if you have a lot of group policies enabled or disabled, we do recommend using the command below instead. Manually changing many of them will be time-consuming.

1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor
   

   
   Press the Start or Search button and type “gpedit.msc”. Click the top result to open the Local Group Policy Editor.
   
   

2. Sort by enabled group policies
   

   
   You can very quickly find the group policies you have enabled by clicking the “State” column in the top-left of the main Group Policy Editor pane. Just make sure you've navigated to Computer Configuration> Administrative Templates > All Settings first or you may not see all of them.

   After clicking, you'll see that each local group policy with the “Enabled” state will appear at the top of your list. Double-click one of them to open its settings.
   
   
3. Change the Enabled Local Group Policy state to ‘Not Configured'
   

   
   In the resulting options menu, click the “Not Configured” checkbox, followed by “Apply” and “OK” to reset the group policy in Windows 10.
   
   

4. Reset a disabled Local Group Policy setting
   

   
   To aid in troubleshooting, you may also want to reset group policies that you previously disabled. These should also show up under the “State” column once you've sorted them. Double click the policy to open it.
   
   

5. Change the policy to ‘Not Configured'
   

   
   In the resulting options menu, tick “Not Configured”, then press “Apply” and “OK”. If you want to reset all of your policies, repeat this process for any that aren't set to “Not Configured”.
   
   

If you have a lot of group policies, the fastest way to reset them all is through command prompt, which allows you to do so in just a couple of commands.

1. Open Command Prompt
   

   
   Press the Start button and type “Command Prompt”, then click “Run as administrator” on the right-hand side.
   
   

2. Enter the reset group policy command
   

   
   To reset all group policy settings on Windows 10, we can enter the following command:
   
   RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers" && RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
   
   You should leave it exactly as it is. There's no need to change any of the directories.
   
   

3. Update your Local Group Policy settings
   

   
   Now that we've run the reset command, we need to force our group policy settings to update to reflect the new changes. You can do so by entering:
   
   gpupdate /force
   
   You'll recieve the message “Computer Policy update has completed successfully” if it updated correctly. You can close the Command Prompt window now if you wish