Missing Control Panel in Group Policy, how do I restore?

[714smurf]

I'm missing the Control Panel item under the Administrative Templates section of group policy editor.



I'm running on a fresh installation right out the box Windows 8.1 on a laptop and at first, gpedit.msc wasn't found so I had to install that and after installing that, some items are missing.

I've tried to running sfc /scannow and when it finished it just says "Windows Resource protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them"

How do I get back the Control Panel template in the group policy editor? Thanks in advance.

 

[David Bailey]

I've tried to running sfc /scannow and when it finished it just says "Windows Resource protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them"

Run-

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

in admin cmd prompt & restart, then run sfc again.

Read your cbs log & search for - cannot - using Find under Edit tab in Notepad.
If unfixable files are .json files ignore them.

 

[714smurf]

running dism right now. almost done.

anyway, do you know why there is no control panel under admin templates in group policy or why gpedit.msc was not found to begin with?

 

[David Bailey]

running dism right now. almost done.

anyway, do you know why there is no control panel under admin templates in group policy or why gpedit.msc was not found to begin with?

Dism hangs at 20% for a long time.
It will finish sooner or later.

Don't know about control panel.

 

[714smurf]

found the problem.

2015-08-01 01:25:43, Info CSI 0000090b [SR] Cannot repair member file [l:20{10}]"gpedit.dll" of Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-Admin-Gpedit, Version = 6.3.9600.17415, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral in the store, hash mismatch

there was more but this is the short version. guess this is why my gpedit.msc isn't working. how do i restore or repair this file manually?

 

[David Bailey]

You could try replacing yours with my copy.
Do so at your own risk.

Zipped folder with the .dll in it.
It goes in System 32.-

View attachment New folder (7).zip

edit-

 

[714smurf]

replaced it. didn't work =/ running sfc again to see if itll fix the new one. if not, i still have the original. then back to square one.

 

[David Bailey]

replaced it. didn't work =/ running sfc again to see if itll fix the new one. if not, i still have the original. then back to square one.

Did you restart the computer after replacing it ?

 

[714smurf]

it was worth a shot. anyway thanks for your help david bailey :thumb: guess ill have to wait for others whose had this problem to throw out some suggestions.

 

[714smurf]

no i didnt restart after replacing it. gonna try again and let you know.

 

[David Bailey]

Mine looks a bit different than yours-

 

[714smurf]

yep. yours has all of the items under admin templates, including control panel which is what i need. after replacing my gpedit.dll with your gpedit.dll, im now missing the admin templates. that was on me though. worth a shot. everything still running fine. i don't know why my fresh windows had so many bad/missing files.

 

[David Bailey]

You could reinstall.

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