Windows 10: Cannot find gpedit.msc

My windows 10 Home system started asking me to ALT-CTRL-DELETE every time it is idle for a period of time. Not sure how that happened but was attempting to resolve. Followed instructions to executed netplwix or control userpassword2 couldn't find userpassword2 . netplwiz worked but the the "Required user to press alt cntrl del" was greyed out. The next step was to find local policies via secpol.msc and could not find that either. one deeper was to find gpedit.msc which was found. Some video said to go to a link and download it but it was not a Microsoft link and I a fearful of downloading a none recognized link to download the GPEDIT.MSC. Then I find out none is available on Windows 10 home.


Back to the original problem. How do i get rid of the ALT-CTRL-DELETE

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I can't set a slideshow in the Lock Screen and one of the Microsoft suggestions to use gpedit msc didn't work

I can't set up a slideshow for the lock screen. I can select a picture from the computer or I can select one of the Windows 10 standard pictures. If I select slideshow it doesn't change the PREVIEW and when the computer is inactive I get a black screen.

One of the suggestions made by Microsoft in response to this problem in another post was to run gpedit msc. I have tried this or gpedit.msc or gpedit and in all cases the message I get is gpedit or gpedit.msc or gpedit msc "is not recognised as an
internal or external command, operable program or batch file"

How do I fix the lock screen problem or invoke the local group policy editor?

 

Gpedit problem


I just repair installed win 10 32 1607. Some things were messed up but I've been able to correct most. However I saw a recent post on how to remove Cortana. https://www.tenforums.com/general-sup...e-cortana.html. One suggestion was to use gpedit. But when I started gpedit,msc I got the attached message
The program ran after I dismissed the message twice but did not display the needed choices. I took a shot at editing the referenced file but couldn't save it because it's in Windows directory and is protected. (I am the Administrator). How can I fix gpedit?

 

Can't Access gpedit

Hi pandapanda, you need to add .msc after like so
gpedit.msc





i get same error if i don't add .msc after