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Karl-WE
Nov 07, 2024MVP
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?
- revolutionaryice896Copper Contributor
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