Windows 10: Disable Apps for Websites in Windows 11 using Settings, GPEDIT, REGEDIT

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In Windows 11/10 OS, we have a built-in Apps for websites feature to let websites or links open in an app instead of a browser using web-to-app linking. That means if a link can be opened with, say, Microsoft To-do or Microsoft Teams, etc., then that particular app is launched directly (if installed on your […]

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Do policies set in gpedit (Win Pro) override Regedit entries?

Win 10 1909 Pro (18363.778)

Long story short, but I'm one of the many affected by the May 2020 HP desktop KMODE BSOD and bootloop.

This is apparently caused by Defender clashing with HP software, and the temporary fix is to disable Defender entirely through adding the keys via Regedit. I did that.

When the machine started working after that, I also disabled Defender through the gpedit "Turn off Windows Defender antivirus" setting to "Enabled".

I'm now planning how to claw back to normality, which includes allowing Windows Updates (also turned off in gpedit as well as via UI) and re-enabling Defender (if I have to).

I have two questions:-

Is it mandatory to have Defender and all components turned ON when updating Windows, especially Quality Updates? I'm also using Avast and Malwarebytes, and don't really want Defender if I can avoid it, as it seems to be a source of problems. I'd prefer to leave it disabled for the near future.

Secondly, I have mimicked or duplicated some policies by making them through gpedit and regedit. Does anything set through gpedit override regedit entries. Specifically, if, until I want to move on with this, can I revert or delete the Defender regedit keys I made, to "clear the way", but, for the moment, leave the matching gpedit policy of having Defender set firmly disabled and have it do exactly that?

 

Windows 10 regedit and gpedit stopped working

Hello Andi,

We appreciate the time and effort you have put in to work on this issue with us.

In the mean time, I suggest you to
create a System Restore point, so that you will always have a functional state of the computer to revert to. However, if you already have one in the recent time, to check if there is any Restore Point already created,
follow the below steps.

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  Press Windows key + X, select System.
  
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  In the left pane, click on System Protection.
  
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  Select the option to system restore > next. It will show all restore points already created.
  

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Do policies set in gpedit (Win Pro) override Regedit entries?

I would expect a Features update to change registry settings, either by reverting them and/or by adding new ones, as I understand a Feature update is more or less a complete new Windows installation. If that's so, then perhaps Feature Update will enable itself in whatever way it needs to get going, including tidying up or outright ignoring existing registry settings.

Until the present HP/MS problem is sorted, I don't plan to allow the 2004 Feature for some time yet.

I asked about the "supremacy" of gpedit vs. regedit, as its not easy under present circumstances to prove it empirically for myself. I'm guessing that it's always unidirectional i.e. a gpedit always reflects somewhere in registry, which it would of course do as otherwise it wouldn't work, but a regedit to the same key doesn't "climb up the hierarchy" and change a value seen in gpedit. This would perhaps explain why, after disabling it through regedit, every single state in Windows Defender gpedit was "Not configured", and is still that apart from the "Turn off W.D." which I have set to "Enabled".

Plenty to consider, and thanks for advice.