Check your computer's applied policies with the Resultant Set of Policies console
Group policies have been used in Windows for many years now and their purpose is to tune the configuration of your computer and also to prevent users from accessing certain parts of the operating system and other settings that you don’t want them seeing or using. It's also used to do things such as roll out software, map network drives, install printers and configure Windows update settings for workstation computers. For the most part they are used on Windows domains on corporate network so administrators can apply settings to multiple computers all at once rather than having to go to each one and configure them separately. There may also be times when group policy settings get applied to your home computer such as it was once on a network or some software changed policy settings without you knowing it. If you notice that access to something like Control Panel is blocked or you aren't able to change your desktop wallpaper it could be a result of a group policy on your computer.There is an easy way to check what policies if any are applied to your computer and that is to run the Resultant Set of Policies (RSOP) on your computer. Then you can see if you want these policies to be in effect and if not disable them assuming you have the right permissions.
To run the Resultant Set of Policies tool simply type in rsop in the search box and press enter or click on rsop.msc that comes up in the search. You will see that it will process the Resultant Set of Policies with a progress bar. The whole process only takes about 10-15 seconds.
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