I use Group Policy Editor in order to configure a lot of settings on Windows 10. Recently when I tried to open it from the Run prompt or directly via the Control Panel. I actually received an error stating—Failed to open the Group Policy Object on this PC. You guys might not have the appropriate rights — unspecified error. If you get the same error, then let’s see how you can instantly fix the issue and gain back access to the Group Policy Editor. In this article, we are going to talk about Failed to Open the Group Policy Object in Windows 10. Let’s begin!
Although I have all of the administrative privileges on the machine, and still I was getting this error. The Details part in this error message simply meaningless, because it does not tells us what is the root cause of this issue. So that we can actually fix it as well.
After you research a bit on this issue, I came to the conclusion. That the version upgrade might have corrupted the contents of the Group Policy folder on the system root drive. Thus clearing out the corrupted contents can help in order to solve this issue. I tried this method and it worked for me in the single shot.
Failed to Open the Group Policy Object in Windows 10
- Tap on Windows + R and type %WinDir%\System32 and click Enter key. In the System32 folder, click on the View tab in the File Explorer ribbon and then check the Hidden items option. Now just open the GroupPolicy folder, which was hidden via default.
- Inside the GroupPolicy folder, you have to rename the Machine folder to Machine.old.
- In the Folder Access Denied prompt, you have to tap on Continue. Then type in your user account credentials, if needed. Renaming should also be done now. And just close File Explorer.
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