i had windows 8.1 (not pro) and i wanted to use gpedit.msc
I installed gpedit, but that didnt solve the issue of opening qpedit so i upgraded to windows 8.1 pro.
i now have gpedit.msc but each time when i open gpedit.msc i get a question from MMC "in which version of MMC do want to view the file" in 32 bit or 64 bit version every time
how can i disable that question each time i open gpedit.msc
i also saw that when i tried to install gpedit.msc manually (before i had the pro version), the program runs the following command (using a file.bat extension).
@echo off echo x64 takeown /f %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gpedit.dll icacls %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gpedit.dll /grant:r %username%:f takeown /f %WinDir%\SysWOW64\fde.dll icacls %WinDir%\SysWOW64\fde.dll /grant:r %username%:f takeown /f %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gptext.dll icacls %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gptext.dll /grant:r %username%:f echo. echo. takeown /f %WinDir%\SysWOW64\appmgr.dll icacls %WinDir%\SysWOW64\appmgr.dll /grant:r %username%:f takeown /f %WinDir%\SysWOW64\fdeploy.dll icacls %WinDir%\SysWOW64\fdeploy.dll /grant:r %username%:f IF NOT EXIST %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GPBAK\NUL MKDIR %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GPBAK takeown /f %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GPBAK\* icacls %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GPBAK\* /grant:r %username%:f IF EXIST %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gpedit.dll copy %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gpedit.dll %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GPBAK\gpedit.dll IF EXIST %WinDir%\SysWOW64\fde.dll copy %WinDir%\SysWOW64\fde.dll %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GPBAK\fde.dll IF EXIST %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gptext.dll copy %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gptext.dll %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GPBAK\gptext.dll IF EXIST %WinDir%\SysWOW64\appmgr.dll copy %WinDir%\SysWOW64\appmgr.dll %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GPBAK\appmgr.dll IF EXIST %WinDir%\SysWOW64\fdeploy.dll copy %WinDir%\SysWOW64\fdeploy.dll %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GPBAK\fdeploy.dll IF EXIST %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gpedit.msc copy %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gpedit.msc %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GPBAK\gpedit.msc copy gpedit.dll %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gpedit.dll copy fde.dll %WinDir%\SysWOW64\fde.dll copy gptext.dll %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gptext.dll copy appmgr.dll %WinDir%\SysWOW64\appmgr.dll copy fdeploy.dll %WinDir%\SysWOW64\fdeploy.dll copy gpedit.msc %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gpedit.msc IF NOT EXIST %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GroupPolicy\NUL MKDIR %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GroupPolicy IF NOT EXIST %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GroupPolicy\adm\NUL MKDIR %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GroupPolicy\adm copy system.adm %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GroupPolicy\Adm\system.adm copy inetres.adm %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GroupPolicy\Adm\inetres.adm copy conf.adm %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GroupPolicy\Adm\conf.adm copy wmplayer.adm %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GroupPolicy\Adm\wmplayer.adm copy wuau.adm %WinDir%\SysWOW64\GroupPolicy\Adm\wuau.adm regsvr32 /s %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gpedit.dll regsvr32 /s %WinDir%\SysWOW64\fde.dll regsvr32 /s %WinDir%\SysWOW64\gptext.dll regsvr32 /s %WinDir%\SysWOW64\appmgr.dll regsvr32 /s %WinDir%\SysWOW64\fdeploy.dll
is there a way to undo that command and restore gpedit and mmc the way it used to be.
Thank you very much for your help.