{"id":109120,"date":"2024-04-22T11:16:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/?post_type=support&#038;p=109120"},"modified":"2024-04-22T11:20:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:20:32","slug":"troubleshoot-windows-policy-application-and-registry-pol-files","status":"publish","type":"support","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/support\/troubleshoot-windows-policy-application-and-registry-pol-files","title":{"rendered":"Troubleshoot: Windows Policy Application and Registry.pol Files"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Windows Operating System relies on changes made to the Registry.pol files to apply policies for user and computer based settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong> When policies are pushed successfully to a device but fail to apply, the typical cause is that the registry.pol file on the device has become corrupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Manually-removing-the-Registry.pol-Files.\">About Registry.pol Files<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two registry.pol files in the Windows OS, one for user, and one for machine settings. The respective files are located in the following directories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>C:\\windows\\System32\\GroupPolicy\\Machine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C:\\windows\\System32\\GroupPolicy\\User<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>黑料海角91入口 policies are applied to the \u2018Machine\\registry.pol\u2019 file. However, if you see policies applying unexpectedly that are not related to any 黑料海角91入口 policies bound to the machine, it is possible the \u2018User\\Registry.pol\u2019 still contains policies applied by a previous solution, such as Active Directory Group Policy. Deleting these files and running a manual Group Policy Update will rebuild these files and reapply the necessary policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Removing Registry.pol Files Manually<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To remove the registry.pol files manually on a Windows device:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Delete the <strong>registry.pol<\/strong> files located in these directories: \n<ul>\n<li>C:\\windows\\System32\\GroupPolicy\\Machine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C:\\windows\\System32\\GroupPolicy\\User<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then open a Windows Command Prompt and run the following command to rebuild the registry\/pol files: <kbd>GPUpdate \/Force<\/kbd><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cgb-notification-card-wysiwyg notification-card note\"><div class=\"notification-card-content\"><div class=\"notification-card-icon\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/jumpcloud\/assets\/images\/gutenberg-blocks\/note-icon.png\" \/><\/p><\/div><div class=\"notification-card-copy is-type-body-default\"><div><strong class=\"notification-card-type\">Note:<\/strong> \n<p>The respective &#8216;Registry.pol&#8217; will not repopulate if there are no policies applied to the Machine or User object.<\/p>\n <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Removal-Using-Powershell:\">Removing with PowerShell:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To remove the files using PowerShell, open an elevated PowerShell terminal and run the following commands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cgb-code-block code-block\"><div class=\"code-block-snippet is-type-body-default\">\n<p>Remove-Item -Path &#8220;C:\\Windows\\System32\\GroupPolicy\\Machine\\registry.pol&#8221; -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue <br><br>Remove-Item -Path &#8220;C:\\Windows\\System32\\GroupPolicy\\User\\registry.pol&#8221; -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue <br><br>gpupdate \/force<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Removal-Using-黑料海角91入口-Commands:\">Removing with 黑料海角91入口 Commands:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also use 黑料海角91入口 Commands to remove the files on affected devices:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Create a new 黑料海角91入口 Windows PowerShell Command in your Admin Portal.\n<ul>\n<li>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/windows-run-remote-commands\">Windows &#8211; Run Remote Commands<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paste the following script into the Command and configure it to run on Windows devices experiencing policy application issues:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cgb-code-block code-block\"><div class=\"code-block-snippet is-type-body-default\">\n<p># Delete the registry.pol files <br># Machine Policy <br>Remove-Item -Path &#8220;C:\\Windows\\System32\\GroupPolicy\\Machine\\registry.pol&#8221; -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue <br><br># User Policy <br>Remove-Item -Path &#8220;C:\\Windows\\System32\\GroupPolicy\\User\\registry.pol&#8221; -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue <br><br># Run a manual gpupdate <br>gpupdate \/force<a href=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.atlassian.net\/wiki\/label\/TWD\/ikb-draft\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows Operating System relies on changes made to the Registry.pol files to apply policies for user and computer based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"support_category":[2852,3136,2862,3127,2924],"support_tag":[3160],"coauthors":[3011],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - 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