Group Policy on home machine?!?!?!?!?

Ok,

I have a gaming machine at home that was running W7. I upgraded to W10. It went from W7 Ultimate to W10 Pro, which is fine. Not long after that, I ran into some issues that I was unable to correct, sfc /scannow was failing, and I couldn't get DISM to read the source files correctly to execute a repair.

So, after doing some searching, I found this article:

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

This was successful, and I thought I was on my merry way. Then after I was using it for a few minutes, it came up with a message that I didn't have an AV running. So, it pointed me to the AV control panel, but everything was greyed out. Then I went into update, and got the notorious "Some system settings are managed by your organization."

I'm quite sure this is a group policy issue, but I'm confused as to why it just decided to clamp down on group policy when this machine isn't in a domain (it's in a workgroup). I then found some instructions that said to delete the GP directories and do "gpupdate /force". That didn't work either.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Run gpresult and see what it shows is in place.

Here's what gpresult prouduces:


Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Operating System Group Policy Result tool v2.0
c 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Created on 12/9/2015 at 7:47:33 AM



RSOP data for GamingMachine\Eric on GAMINGMACHINE : Logging Mode
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OS Configuration: Standalone Workstation
OS Version: 10.0.10586
Site Name: N/A
Roaming Profile: N/A
Local Profile: C:\Users\Eric
Connected over a slow link?: No


COMPUTER SETTINGS
------------------

Last time Group Policy was applied: 12/8/2015 at 10:57:20 AM
Group Policy was applied from: N/A
Group Policy slow link threshold: 500 kbps
Domain Name: GAMINGMACHINE
Domain Type: <Local Computer>

Applied Group Policy Objects
-----------------------------
N/A

The computer is a part of the following security groups
-------------------------------------------------------
System Mandatory Level
Everyone
BUILTIN\Users
NT AUTHORITY\SERVICE
CONSOLE LOGON
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
This Organization
BDESVC
BITS
CertPropSvc
DcpSvc
dmwappushservice
DoSvc
DsmSvc
Eaphost
IKEEXT
iphlpsvc
LanmanServer
lfsvc
MSiSCSI
NcaSvc
NetSetupSvc
RasAuto
RasMan
RemoteAccess
RetailDemo
Schedule
SCPolicySvc
SENS
SessionEnv
SharedAccess
ShellHWDetection
UsoSvc
wercplsupport
Winmgmt
wlidsvc
wuauserv
XboxNetApiSvc
LOCAL
BUILTIN\Administrators


USER SETTINGS
--------------

Last time Group Policy was applied: 12/9/2015 at 7:44:04 AM
Group Policy was applied from: N/A
Group Policy slow link threshold: 500 kbps
Domain Name: GamingMachine
Domain Type: <Local Computer>

Applied Group Policy Objects
-----------------------------
N/A

The user is a part of the following security groups
---------------------------------------------------
None
Everyone
Local account and member of Administrators group
HomeUsers
BUILTIN\Administrators
BUILTIN\Users
NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE
CONSOLE LOGON
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
This Organization
Local account
LOCAL
NTLM Authentication
High Mandatory Level

Hi,

Had the same issue on a number of occasions. This is what solved it for me:


Steps to fix 'Some settings are managed by your organization' message in Windows 10
Make sure you have administrator rights and follow the steps below:

Step 1: Launch Run prompt by right clicking the Windows Start menu icon. Type in gpedit.msc and click OK or Enter.
Step 2: In Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc), go to Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Data Collection and Preview Builds.
Step 3: Find the Allow Telemetry item and double-click it to edit the policies.
Step 4: Change the setting to Enabled. Change the drop-down menu entry to 3-Full and click Apply.
Step 5: Now open the item again and change its Setting to Not configured and hit the Save button.
The message should no longer stop you from accessing various system settings in Windows 10.

Cheers,

I already saw that solution and tried it. It doesn't seem to work. Any other ideas?