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Group Policy Editor has instructions for how each of the settings works. This is especially true for many of the features that need to be enabled since how would I know to look for them in the first place? Being able to find instructions across various blog posts for each of those options is one thing, but so many of those options I wouldn’t even have thought to look for. Group Policy Editor has all (or most, or at the very least, many) options that can be configure, most of which I was unaware of until I looked through the list. If there is an option to make these changes risk-free via an official tool, then I would certainly choose that. Relying upon unofficial advice for editing the Registry usually works out just fine, but there is still some risk and might result in unexpected behavior / consequences.

It is not always clear that the setting is to be configure using only a single Registry value.

While these instructions sometimes come with an alternate method of accomplishing the task by editing the Registry, I would much prefer to use Group Policy Editor because: Unfortunately, I am using Microsoft Windows 10 Home Edition, and that does not come with Group Policy Editor. The instructions usually require using Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc).

Enabling long-path support (long = paths over 259 characters).

Occasionally I want / need to change a Windows setting that is not configurable via Control Panel or Settings.