.POL File Description

The Administrative Templates extension of Group Policy saves information in the Group Policy template in text files with the name Registry.pol. These files contain the customized registry settings that are applied to the Machine or User portion of the registry which you specify using the Group Policy snap-in. The Windows 2000 Registry.pol file is analogous to the Windows 95 or Windows 98 Config.pol file and the Windows NT 4.0 NT Config.pol file.

Note: The format of the .pol files in the Group Policy template differs from that of the .pol files in previous versions of Windows. The .pol files created by Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95 can be applied only to the operating system on which they were created. The .pol file produced by the Windows NT 4.0 System Policy Editor was a binary file, whereas the Registry.pol file produced by Administrative Templates node of the Group Policy snap-in is a text file with embedded binary strings.

Other Information For .POL File Extension

• Company:

  Microsoft Corporation.

• File Type:

  Windows Group Policy File

• Identifying Characters (Hex):

  N/A

• Identifying Characters (ASCII):

  N/A