How to confirm if Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions are installed in WinXP

Scenario

You need to confirm if Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions are installed for Windows XP, but nothing shows up in Add/Remove Programs.

You’re sure that you have the right update (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3628), but Group Policy Preferences are not working.

Here’s how you can confirm Preference CSEs are installed:

Solution

Check for the existence of %SystemRoot%\System32\Gpprefcl.dll

Simples!

Comments

  1. Great! Helped a lot!