The features are stored on your computer and aren’t downloaded when you enable them. You can do this entirely offline and without any Internet connection. Depending on the features you enabled or disabled, Windows may require you reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. You can expand the feature to see which of its subfeatures are and aren’t enabled.Ĭlick “OK” and Windows will apply whatever changes you made. If you see a square in a box, the feature contains multiple sub-features and only some of them are enabled. If a feature doesn’t have a checkmark, it’s disabled. If a feature has a checkmark next to it, it’s enabled. The list of available Windows features appears. You can also press Windows Key + R to open the Run dialog, type “optionalfeatures”, and press Enter. To do so, open the Start menu, type “optionalfeatures”, and press Enter.
You can also quickly launch this window with a single command.
Click “Programs” in the list and then select “Turn Windows features on or off” under Programs and Features.
