Extra Registry Settings in Windows Benchmarks

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Solution

Please see this WorkBench Discussion entitled - “Alot of "Extra registry settings" in GPO” - which contains useful information from a Windows Community Expert. (Note that you will have to join the Windows WorkBench Community before viewing the discussion)

There are some additional Microsoft-created ADMX templates that we utilize in the benchmark that are not included in the main Windows set. Please download either the PDF or Word versions of the benchmark, and you will see that each and every recommendation in sections 18 and 19 (which are the ones that use Group Policy templates) references which ADMX template file the associated setting comes from.

We try to carefully document each and every recommendation as much as possible in the PDF/Word versions of the Windows benchmarks, and we highly recommend having one (or both) of those documents handy as a reference. Certainly, they are too long to read from front to back, but there is all kinds of useful information to be gleaned from those documents, including known problems that can sometimes occur due to some recommendations.

If unable to remove an Extra Registry setting, this 3rd party blog post may be helpful: Removing Extra Registry Settings from GPOs.

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