<p>You might receive the following error message when trying to apply the group policy settings.</p>
<p><strong>Computer policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encountered:</strong><br />
<strong>The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not apply the registry-based policy settings for the Group Policy object LocalGPO&#8230;</strong></p>
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<p>Upon checking the event log I have noticed that <strong>Event 1096</strong> is related to the error message above.</p>
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<p>After checking the <strong>Details tab</strong> I could see that the data is corrupted for the <strong>registry.pol</strong> file located at <strong>C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\registry.pol</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-3535 size-full" src="https://www.wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/gpo-not-aplying4-1.jpg" alt="Computer policy could not be updated successfully" width="458" height="311" /></p>
<p>In order to solve this problem, we have to delete the registry.pol file located at <strong>C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\ folder.</strong></p>
<p>After deletion of <strong>registry.pol</strong> file try to run group policy update from the command prompt using <strong>gpupdate /force</strong> command.</p>
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Computer policy could not be updated successfully
