Does anyone have access to a Windows 10 Home machine they can test something for me with?
I got one here. I'm trying to put Group Policy Editor on it. I found directions on how to do it. Anyways, I go to an elevated command prompt after running the setup program they gave me. I type:
I messed up with the xcopy command. The command I typed should have put the files that are inside the adm directory inside the C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy directory, not the C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\adm directory like I wanted. Now, this is where it gets weird...
While I'm in the c:\windows\SysWOW64 directory, this is what I type and see:
Now, if I change directories to anything, this is what I get:
Here's the dir command...
It gets even weirder. If I go into the c:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy directory, I can create a file like conf.adm....and whatever I put in that file, it'll stay once I save it. But if I go back to the c:\windows\SysWOW64\ directory and try opening c:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\conf.adm, I get the original one that I xcopy'd.
Does anyone know what might be going on and how I can fix this? I was thinking maybe there was some sort of root kit installed but Norton doesn't find anything. I ran some rootkit detection program as well and that came back negative. I mean, I can run some other programs to test for infection, but at this point in time, I'd like to rule out yet another Windows 10 bug.
Can anyone test to see if they have the same issue? Thanks!
I got one here. I'm trying to put Group Policy Editor on it. I found directions on how to do it. Anyways, I go to an elevated command prompt after running the setup program they gave me. I type:
Code:
cd \windows\SysWOW64\GroupPolicy xcopy c:\windows\SysWOW64\GroupPolicy\adm /s /e c:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy
While I'm in the c:\windows\SysWOW64 directory, this is what I type and see:
Code:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64>attrib \windows\system32\GroupPolicy\* A C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\conf.adm A C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\gpt.ini A C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\inetres.adm A C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\system.adm A C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\wmplayer.adm A C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\wuau.adm
Code:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64>cd GroupPolicy C:\Windows\SysWOW64\GroupPolicy>attrib \windows\system32\GroupPolicy\* A C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\gpt.ini
Code:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64>dir \windows\system32\GroupPolicy\* Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 6C09-E3A7 Directory of C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy 06/27/2016 04:08 PM <DIR> . 06/27/2016 04:08 PM <DIR> .. 06/27/2016 03:57 PM <DIR> adm 06/27/2016 03:45 PM 128 gpt.ini 01/09/2016 05:24 PM <DIR> Machine 01/09/2016 05:24 PM <DIR> User 1 File(s) 128 bytes 5 Dir(s) 79,991,689,216 bytes free C:\Windows>dir \windows\system32\GroupPolicy\* Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 6C09-E3A7 Directory of C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy 06/27/2016 04:08 PM <DIR> . 06/27/2016 04:08 PM <DIR> .. 06/27/2016 03:57 PM <DIR> adm 06/27/2016 03:45 PM 128 gpt.ini 01/09/2016 05:24 PM <DIR> Machine 01/09/2016 05:24 PM <DIR> User 1 File(s) 128 bytes 5 Dir(s) 79,991,689,216 bytes free
Does anyone know what might be going on and how I can fix this? I was thinking maybe there was some sort of root kit installed but Norton doesn't find anything. I ran some rootkit detection program as well and that came back negative. I mean, I can run some other programs to test for infection, but at this point in time, I'd like to rule out yet another Windows 10 bug.
Can anyone test to see if they have the same issue? Thanks!
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