Thanks, very usefull.
I must admit I was very courious about many thingh in the add/remove features but I never dig too much 😉

Telnet and TFTP are very different and not at all related.

Be warned: just because you never use internet explorer doesn’t mean you can disable it here. If you have Skype installed this will mess it up (plus who knows what else). This lesson cost me half a day.

I am so glad you pointed out what every feature is for, this helped me to free up a blocked port #80 which I needed for my XAMPP installation. After turning of the right features XAMPP works fine

It is actually the best guide i encountered till now !!! great job ! Simple, Short, Clear

I know this an older post but it still shows high on the search results when trying to find an explanation to what those Windows Features are, and so is still relevant I think. Your explanations are good for what appears to be your intended audience, people who are configuring their personal home computer. I’d like to point out though that most people with as little knowledge as the intended audience will not be seeking explanations for all of this. IT pros and businesses, on the other hand, are assumed to already have the knowledge to properly configure these things. This leaves what I would guess is your actual audience, people with pretty good computer skills trying to improve them and implement some of these less well known Windows features in a home or small business environment so they can do this later for a business or a home network. I find then that this article is very inadequate in that capacity. It repeatedly cops out and says that this or that feature is only used by IT pros and businesses. Yeah, ok, but we are reading the article to learn how to use them so why can’t we see an example of how to implement some of these things? We obviously are interested because we are taking the time to read this.

Thank you SO much for taking the time to:
Explain, in detail, what each feature is
For wording it in a way “normal” people can understand and
For explaining who needs which features.
My Windows Features match exactly to the list above and I found it EXTREMELY HELPFUL!

I found that by disabling the ‘Internet Explorer’ feature I had 2 unwanted side effects;
1. On my Win10 laptop at work, by doing so I could no longer click on a link in an email in Outlook and go to the website. It would say something about ‘your organization doesn’t permit it’. After reenabling IE, that problem went away.
2. On my home Win10 laptop, I could not longer get to the WIndows store, which you need to do for app installation. After reenabling IE, that problem went away.

The funny thing is that my default web browser in both instances was Firefox.

Thank you very much, usefull!