How to Find all the Disabled Features Using PowerShell in Windows 10

There are times when you need to check missing/disabled features on your Windows 10 machine. This is done to ensure that all the essential features have been enabled or not.

PowerShell can be used to obtain a list of all the disabled and running features on your Windows 10 machine.

First, you'll need to open PowerShell as an Administrator. To open an elevated PowerShell prompt, in the taskbar search bar, type powershell. Now see the result Windows PowerShell which appears on the top. Right-click on it and select Run as Administrator.

In the PowerShell window, type the following command and hit Enter:

Code:

Get-WindowsOptionalFeature –Online | ? state –eq ‘disabled’ | select featurename | sort -Descending


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This will show you all the disabled features.

If you want to find all the running features in Windows 10, replace “disabled” with ‘running’.


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