you could make a script that ran minimized or hidden, that 'undoes' or 'does' whatever policy/reg entries you wanted

have it run
make the updates
use SOON.EXE to reschedule itself for 5 or 10 minutes

There you go, your own happy personal policy configurer/enforcer and as long as you have permission to those reg keys, your changes will 'win'
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