Where is the history of the GPO stored on a local machine? (NETIQKB39408)

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Where is the history of the GPO stored on a local machine? 

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NetIQ Group Policy Administrator 5.0

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NetIQ Group Policy Administrator 4.5

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NetIQ Group Policy Administrator 4.0

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NetIQ Group Policy Administrator 3.0

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The history of GPO application is held in the registry of a computer in the following locations:

For Group Policy Objects applied to the local computer:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\History

For Group Policy Objects applied to the currently logged on user:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\History

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For more information on this topic, please refer to the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

• Group Policy History Stored in Registry 
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q201/4/53.asp&NoWebContent=1 

Formerly known as NETIQKB39408