For my “convenience” and because in this way they can show ads and clickbait

Also: I SET A FUCKING GROUP POLICY THAT DISABLES THE SEARCH BAR; WHY THEY FUCKING IGNORE IT???

  • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
    29·
    9 months ago

    Please explain why that’s a reasonable thing to do if that is actually what OP did. If OP applied the GPO to all or many users that’s fine, but IMO it’s weird to force these kinds of changes on users unless many complain. In my experience most actually like a colossal search bar for some reason.

    If OP uses a GPO as their personal config, that can’t be how they are supposed to be used. But maybe that’s really common, sounds pretty odd though. (I don’t think OP actually did this, the first option seems more likely and my comment above was mostly a joke).

    Either way, OP should troubleshoot their GPOs before complaining about it. Restarting would probably solve it.

    • TeddE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      I work at a Managed Service Provider for IT and we have a ton of GPO policies that are labeled “VIP”, which is internally understood as ‘there’s no reason for this policy to exist except that someone in power demanded we create it’. Many of those policies are dialed down to a single or small handful of people.

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        9 months ago

        Microsoft has restricted normal GPOs to Pro and up, because the Home edition can’t join a domain. They also restricted local group policies but I don’t think they are used much (as it should be).

        OP said that they were in a domain so they are probably using normal GPOs with AD anyways.

        So if OP is running Windows Pro on a home machine and using GPO on a domain of one to override all the silly bullshit Microsoft has done to stop users moving away from default home configs, more power to them I say.

        No puppies are being harmed by using GPO to hack his home machine, lol.

        No, absolutely not. I just thought it was on a corporate domain joined computer. OP can do whatever they want on their own machine.

        Btw, GPOs just edit the windows register so you could just apply all the changes using regedit instead of using a GPO. This should also work on Home (I haven’t tried but I see no reason why it wouldn’t work). But please don’t, you will have a bad time if you do anything remotely complicated.