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When I opened the local group policy editor on my Windows 10 Pro computer, I received the following error message:
Namespace’Microsoft.Policies.Sensors.Sensors.WindowsLocationProvider’ is already defined as the target namespace for another file in memory
By clicking OK, I lost the field and was able to continue working on my group policy editor.
The question is: what is this error and why does it occur?
The namespace is already defined
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This is because the file LocationProviderADM.admx in Windows 10 has been renamed to Microsoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.admx.
So, after upgrading to Windows 10 RTM, you may be faced with this error on some systems. However, you won’t notice it if you upgraded directly from Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 to Windows 10 v1511.
Microsoft explains that this error is for information only, and if you click OK and move forward, the GPEDIT function will execute normally.
However, if you want to correct the cause, KB3077013 suggests deleting the files LocationProviderADM.admx and LocationProviderADM.adml and changing the names of the files Microsoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.admx and Microsoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.admx and Microsoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.adml to the correct names.
First create a system restore point. Then open an expanded command prompt window pt and execute the following command :
takeown /F ' C:WindowsPolicyDefinitionenMicrosoft-WLPAdm.admx' /A
Followed by
takeown /F :WindowsPolicyDefinitionsen-USMicrosoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm. adml' /A
Then grant the administrators Full control permissions for both files. Open C:WindowsPolicyDefinitions and right-click the Microsoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.admx file and select Properties.
In the Security tab, click the Edit button . Then select Full Control in the new setting field as shown below. Click Apply, OK and complete the process.
Do the same for file C:WindowsPolicyDefinitionsen-USMicrosoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.adml.
Finally rename both files with the.old extension.
Restart your computer and check.
The error messages disappear.
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