Group Policy Editor (gpedit) and Local Security Policy Editor (secpol) in Windows Home Edition

One of the major restriction windows home edition has, for me, is the lack of the 2 tools gpedit and secpol.

But thoses tools can easily be added, either by just copying a few files from a Pro or Enterprise version of Windows, which most do, or by a simple trick :

http://pastebin.com/Bj56B0sX

@echo off
dir /b C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~3*.mum >List.txt
dir /b C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~3*.mum >>List.txt
for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . List.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\%%i"
pause

Afterwards, a few steps of sfc /scannow and dism /online /Cleanup-Image /scanhealth, dism /online /Cleanup-Image /checkhealth, dism /online /Cleanup-Image /restorehealth, possibly with a /source (global options), can check you have the right version, or possibly even « fix » it by replacing it with the correct version.

Merging several *.swm files into a .wim is done with
DISM /Export-Image /SWMFile:install*.swm /Sourceindex:1 /DestinationImageFile:installwim.wim(help), which is usefull for some installation support like the OEM ones.