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  1. Posts : 27,162
    Win11 Pro, Win10 Pro N, Win10 Home, Windows 8.1 Pro, Ubuntu
       #10

    Ok I selected uninstall for all three, and they were still there.

    I then decided to reboot, and:
    Getting Windows Ready
    Working on updates xx%....
    Restarting
    Working on updates xx%
    Windows!

    Opened Start and all three are gone:)
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  2. Posts : 10,929
    Win10 x64
       #11

    Good to know they can be removed. WMP will cause a BSOD for me when using Bitdefender. I plan on using BD when I clean install 1803 from the MCT. Thanks Cliff :)
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  3. Posts : 27,162
    Win11 Pro, Win10 Pro N, Win10 Home, Windows 8.1 Pro, Ubuntu
       #12

    Access Denied said:
    Good to know they can be removed. WMP will cause a BSOD for me when using Bitdefender. I plan on using BD when I clean install 1803 from the MCT. Thanks Cliff :)

    I pretty much use the Windows UWP apps all the time now, and I find WMP and IE11 to be security risks., that's why I want them gone, and as I said above I have never used XPS, so... bye bye
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  4. Posts : 57
    W10 Pro x64
       #13

    This isn't a big deal or anything, but is there a way to manually wipe the optional feature history? I uninstalled some optional features on the first of May but they're still there in the history under "last 7 days" despite it being over a week at this point.
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  5. Posts : 2,450
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #14

    My recent experience:
    Optional Features that cannot be uninstalled (i.e. have only the Manage button available), can be beautifully removed using PowerShell.

    I had a problem with English (GB) typing installed, for a reason unknown to me....No en-GB language installed ever, but the optional feature was there, with no ability to remove, as the only available button was the "Manage" one.
    I did try to install the complete English (GB) language pack, hoping that by removing the newly installed Language pack, the Optional feature will be removed too...but no, the Language pack was removed but the "English (GB) typing", was there!

    So as usual, when everything else fails, using good old PowerShell will (usually) solve it. And yes it's gone:

    Code:
    Get-WindowsCapability -Online | where Name -EQ 'Language.Basic~~~en-GB~0.0.1.0' | Remove-WindowsCapability -Online
    HTH someone!
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  6. Posts : 2
    Windows 10 Pro
       #15

    Error in Powershell part


    @Brink, Thank you for the write-up! This and Turn Windows Features On or Off in Windows 10 have been very helpful in my automations 👍

    Unfortunately, the Powershell part here is wrong insofar as it uses Get-WindowsOptionalFeature for „Windows Features“, as opposed to Get-WindowsCapability for „Optional Features“.
    Great naming and consistency, MS

    Adding and Removing would happen with Add-WindowsCapability and Remove-WindowsCapability, respectively.
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  7. Posts : 7,606
    Windows 10 Home 20H2
       #16

    rasenplanscher said:
    Unfortunately, the Powershell part here is wrong insofar as it uses Get-WindowsOptionalFeature for „Windows Features
    The Get-WindowsOptionalFeature cmdlet gets information about all features (operating system features that include optional Windows foundation features)

    Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pow...?view=win10-ps
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  8. Posts : 2
    Windows 10 Pro
       #17

    Matthew Wai said:
    The Get-WindowsOptionalFeature cmdlet gets information about all features (operating system features that include optional Windows foundation features)
    There is a fundamental communication problem, resulting from the fact that Microsoft fails to use the term feature consistently.

    The two sets of functionality that in DISM docs are called Capabilities and Features, are called “features” in the end-user facing UI, respectively Optional Features and Windows Features. They have no overlap, as far as I can tell. Therefore, you need to consciously separate those two.

    The Capabilities/Optional Features are managed via Settings Win+I \ Apps \ Optional features. The Features/Windows Features are managed via Control Panel[/B] \ Programs and Features \ Turn Windows features on or off.

    If you run both Get-WindowsCapability and Get-WindowsOptionalFeature, you will see that they yield distinct data sets, the former not being a subset of the latter.

    If you review the articles, you can observe that
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  9. Posts : 18,044
    Win 10 Pro 64-bit v1909 - Build 18363 Custom ISO Install
       #18

    Hello @Brink ,

    I am still pre-customising [ on my Test OS ] and I wanted to Remove a couple of Managed Options, therefore I wanted the output list in a more specific order of Installed and Not Present for CMD, and Enabled and Disabled for PowerShell.

    Therefore, these might be a good addition to the above Tutorial . . .

    Option Two: Manage Optional Features in Command Prompt:
    Code:
    
    DISM /Online /Get-Capabilities /Format:Table | Find "Installed"
    Code:
    
    DISM /Online /Get-Capabilities /Format:Table | Find "Not Present"

    Option Three: Manage Optional Features in PowerShell:
    Code:
    
    Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | Where State -Like Enabled* | FT
    Code:
    
    Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | Where State -Like Disabled* | FT

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  10. Posts : 68,652
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #19

    Thank you @Paul Black. Now added to the tutorial.
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