Re: Windows Features شرح
Garcia Miller
Windows has optional features that aren't included by default, but you can add later. These features are called Features on Demand, and can be added at any time. Some of these features are language resources like language packs or handwriting support. On organization-owned devices, you can control access to these other features. You can use group policy or mobile device management (MDM) policies to hide the UI from users, or use Windows PowerShell to enable or disable specific features.
The navigation steps, UI elements, and UI text in this section are based on the latest version of Windows 11 with the latest cumulative update installed. For other versions of Windows 11 that are currently supported or don't have the latest cumulative update, some of the navigation steps, UI elements, and UI text might be different. For example, the Optional features pane might be located under Settings > Apps.
The navigation steps, UI elements, and UI text in this section are based on Windows 10 22H2 with the latest cumulative update installed. For other versions of Windows 10 that are currently supported or don't have the latest cumulative update, some of the navigation steps, UI elements, and UI text might be different. For example, the Optional features pane might be located under Settings > Apps > Apps & features.
Under Installed features, search for the feature that needs to be removed in the Search installed features search box, or scroll through the list of added features until the feature that needs to be removed is found.
Under Installed features, search for the feature that needs to be removed in the Find an installed optional feature search box, or scroll through the list of added features until the feature that needs to be removed is found.
By default, the OS might show Windows features and allow users to add and remove these optional apps and features. To hide Windows features on your user devices, you can use group policy or an MDM provider like Microsoft Intune.
If you use group policy, use the User Configuration\Administrative Template\Control Panel\Programs\Hide "Windows Features" policy. By default, this policy might be set to Not configured, which means users can add or remove features. When this setting is Enabled, the settings page to add optional features is hidden on the device.
If you want to hide the entire Apps feature in the Settings app, you can use a configuration policy on Intune enrolled devices. For more information on the settings you can configure, see Control Panel and Settings device restrictions in Microsoft Intune.
Another useful PowerShell cmdlet is Get-WindowsOptionalFeature. Use this cmdlet to view information about optional features in the current OS or a mounted image. This cmdlet returns the current state of features, and whether a restart might be required when the state changes.
I too would like to find a feature request page for windows 11. I have been really wanting a feature for a long time. Feel free to tell me if it sounds stupid.
I frequently take long notes & write things using Notepad & think Notepad is long overdue for some new features like highlighting text or changing fonts on specific lines only etc.
I realize rich text document kinda has some of these options but the dedicated margins etc suck.
Please microsoft give us some new features in Notepad
I admit it is valuable if apps malfunction (One of those 'Microsoft Windows' things), but I use a bunch of other text/code editors, I would suggest giving one of them a try, and you are likely to find the feature(s) you want along with many others;
What I'm getting at is that there is no need;
Unless there are features necessary or some vulnerability necessary to patch, and the app is working as expected, then it is unnecessary to change;
This is why I mentioned what I did, that notepad is an app built on, or at-the-least used on the premise of responsibility & reliability; If it aint broke, don't fix it, and changing coding requires expensive validation testing, which is an investment of time/money and risk, none of which is necessary for an app that works as intended already.
Likewise, because notepad is built as the lowest common denominator that will always operate as expected for a limited use-case, then it is, quite honestly more productive & valuable to use the programming experience and time required to modify it, on a project which may require these, such as I mentioned.
Bruh Its great you got credentials and its great you are familiar with other versions of windows but I didnt ask microsoft to update "all kinds of other tools" by microsoft or other developers. I specifically suggested that it might be time to make "NOTEPAD" better.
If I was interested in using a different app despite how different or similar they are to NP I would have done like you & searched the appstore/interwebs. I thanked you for the links but that is not what this thread is about. Feel free to scroll to the top, Im sure being a sys admin requires the ability to read. Oh and to be clear I appreciate the "nil" resources as you put it, windows uses enough memory as is and has way too many processes running in the background but I dont believe adding a couple well over due features to Notepad is gonna hog another 2gb of system ram
I've disabled Internet Explorer in the list of "Windows Features" on Windows 10, but then days later I realized that the desktop version of Skype seems to require it to be enabled in order to let me login to my account (it says, "Sorry, we couldn't connect to Skype").
I've ruled out firewall problems and other possible causes for that, updated Windows, and reinstalled Skype, so I'm certain I need to reenable Internet Explorer. However, IE is now missing from "Windows Features" and I can't find a way to add it back. See the screenshot below.
Spent hours trying to get this to work last night and finally was able to. I had the same issue where iexplore.exe was missing in both Program Files and Program Files x86, and also didn't have an option for it in the "turn windows features on or off" section or in the new Settings panel for an available feature. Here are the steps that got it to work for me:
I recommend upgrading the computer to 21H1 first, then downloading the 21h1 iso to the root C drive. Once you mount the iso to the root of C drive it will likely become D or E drive. In my case it has been D both times. You can do this with other versions of windows as well, but will need to adjust the commands accordingly.
Powershell would be your friend here, you will need to use the install feature commandlet and use the remote execute from your workstation. Or you could get group policies to run the commandlet at log on.
Yes I have and I even restarted the machine more than once. My issue is the GPO does not turn on the windows feature for snmp by default windows has SNMP Service turned off I need to turn it on via GPO or a vbscript I can throw in the netlog on folder for a couple days and delete it when I know all the machines have SNMP turned on as once I turn on the feature it grabs the GPO settings.
No since I was testing it I just logged into a computer as admin and then grabbed the batch file off my computer ran it as a admin and it runs through the file but still does not turn on the feature unless I need to restart the computer afterwards but I do not have to when I manually turn SNMP on.
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In Windows 10 and from "Programs and Features", you can turn Windows features on or off and then initiate a download and installation. I wish to turn ".NET Framework 3.5" ON and have it downloaded and installed, but I need to do it via e.g. a PowerShell script or via a command. I need to use the command line.
This will display the feature names since they don't always match up with what you're seeing in that visual feature list. It will also show which are currently enabled/disabled. Once you find the feature that you'd like to enable (NetFx3 in this case), run this:
One of my favorite parts of Windows is the ability to selectively turn features on or off. For instance, on a tablet you can turn on Tablet PC components; on a desktop you can disable these and potentially enable other features as well.
Looking a while back, Microsoft was having some issues with anti-trust lawsuits, and the inability to really separate IE from Windows. From how I understood it, part of this feature (at least the user facing side, not the server side) was enabled to help users 'Turn off IE'.
Following the first of the above - this is much easier on the Mac - just drag the Application to the trash. Don't want to have iPhoto on your machine, just delete it. You can always reinstall it later from the media or Mac App Store. While certain API's do tie into different Applications (think media browsers in Pages, etc), the OS doesn't have to always have these applications to run. And to my understanding (although I have never tried it), you could theoretically remove iTunes or Safari if you wanted (although, WebKit is still being used, and may require Safari).
As for the second item above - server or other features - this is also much different on the Mac. For the actual server functions (outside of the Unix tools), you now just buy an app from the Mac App Store (you used to buy a different version of the Mac OS that was much more expensive). On Mac OS client, there is no direct way to fully remove a feature, say apache, without deleting the binaries, etc. from the actual UNIX paths. So, in this case, there really is not a direct correlation on the Mac OS.
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