This happened to my environment anew days ago, where I was not able to edit my group policy with below error. The GPO is working fine, just that I could not make any changes on it. Issues : Failed to open the Group Policy Object. You might not have the appropriate rights. Details : The system cannot find the path specified. Troubleshooting : Manually assigned delegated permission (with Edit settings, delete & modify security) - not working Tried to edit the policy from PDC Emulator server - not working Checked the availability of the GPO folder in SYSVOL, the GPO folder is available. Resolution : A bit of Googling, I got this : This is the issue, I executed the Procmon & found that process is trying to access the Registry.pol file under User folder under the policy path & it is failing to access, even though user configuration are not configured. It turned out, a folder named ' User ' was missing from the GPO folder, wh