Viewing orphan settings

An orphan setting is a registry policy setting with no known origin. When you choose to exclude a category from your registry policies, it does not remove settings that are already applied; these settings become orphan settings. You can view the orphan settings for each registry policy category in the right-hand pane.

To view orphan settings

From the left-hand pane, expand Registry Policies, and then expand either Computer Policies or User Policies. You may need to expand folders in the left-hand pane to display the name of the policy.
From the left-hand pane, select the policy.
From the right-hand pane, at the bottom of the Categories list, choose Orphan Settings.
In the right-hand pane, to view a setting and its value, expand each item.

Note

When you choose to include a category in your registry policies, any settings in that category are no longer orphan settings.

Related Topics

Include or exclude a policy category