Can i run Get-WindowsFeature PowerShell Command on Windows?

Question

I am trying to disable unnecessary features on windows 10 to optimize the os performance. I thought of creating Powershell DSC Configuration, refer the Windows Feature Resource inside it and disable the features i want.

To mention the feature name i have to run the Get-WindowsFeature command and see what features are there.But that command is not available in my powershell.I did some research and i got to know that Get-WindowsFeature will only work on Windows Server. Is this true?

So what Command i have to run to get the list of features on Windows 10?

Answer 1

Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online 

would give the list of features available in Windows. For more refer docs

Answer 2

Take a look at this script for removing Built-In apps for Windows 10 by the scconfigmgr guys. In my experience, removing these unused apps has greatly improved performance, particularly when a new profile is built on the machine.

Essentially, it uses the Get-AppxPackage command to identify and then remove built-in apps which you might not want.

EDIT

In addition to the above, you can also query WMI to get what Features are enabled using the Win32_OptionalFeature class.

Get-WmiObject -Query "Select * from Win32_OptionalFeature where InstalledState = '1'"

Everything with an 'InstalledState' of '1' means it's currently installed.