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We may sometimes mess up with the Optional Features (“Turn Windows features on or off”) setting and don’t remember exactly what they changed.\u00a0You wonder how to restore the system default settings for the “Turn Windows features on or off” (OptionalFeatures.exe) dialog without resetting Windows.<\/p>\n

“Turn Windows feature on or off” Default Settings for Windows 10<\/h2>\n

The following OptionalFeatures.exe screenshot was taken from a Windows 10 Pro 22H2 computer (clean install). It shows the default settings for Windows 10 Pro 22H2.<\/p>\n

\"optionalfeatures.exe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We may sometimes mess up with the Optional Features (“Turn Windows features on or off”) setting and don’t remember exactly what they changed.\u00a0You wonder how to restore the system default settings for the “Turn Windows features on or off” (OptionalFeatures.exe) dialog without resetting Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[366],"class_list":["post-74995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","tag-optionalfeatures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28995,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/printer-error-0x00000bc4-0x00000709-windows-11-22h2\/","url_meta":{"origin":74995,"position":0},"title":"Fix: Printer Error 0x00000bc4 or 0x00000709 in Windows 11 22H2","author":"Ramesh","date":"October 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"After updating Windows 11 to version 22H2, your network printers may stop working. 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