secedit

The secedit tag on WindowsForum.com covers the built-in Windows command-line tool for exporting and restoring local security policy. Discussion centers on using secedit to capture Windows 10 and Windows 11 security settings into a reusable .inf security template, giving administrators a compact record of local policy before troubleshooting, applying hardening changes, or reinstalling the operating system. A recurring caution is that this is a security-policy backup rather than a full system backup: it does not preserve applications, user profiles, firewall rule collections, certificates, BitLocker protectors, ordinary registry preferences, or every Local Group Policy setting.