How to modify local group policy setting programatically

Question

I am looking for a way to programatically change the value of a group policy setting without having to reboot a machine or install any additional components on it

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Answer 1

I wrote a .NET library to assist with this problem. You can read about it here. It is open and source and you can get code and binaries here. Once you know the registry values that are relevant you can make the necessary changes to them using this library and it will save them into the registry.pol file.