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Karl-WE's avatar
Nov 07, 2024

How to remove "optional features" forever?

Hi all,

with every in-place upgrade of Windows Client and Server OS these "optional features" many of them deprecated by Microsoft get re-installed with an OS Upgrade. Latest interation Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 24H2

 

How can we remove these? They are not listed in WindowsOptionalFeatures (Client).

Thank you for sharing your guidance. 
The outputs from Copilot are wrong assuming some Feature names.

 

  • Pardon my ignorance, a GPO that will uninstall one or more of these features? 

  • use the "local group policy editor" what you are looking for is in that app once you disable the policy it'll grey out the opition

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