Win10 可以選擇關閉的功能

Most important functions to activate or keep activated

There are about 30 optional features that can be added in Windows 10, including some more important than others such as:

• .NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0) is .NET Framework 4.8 Advanced Services: functionality required to run applications created using the .NET Framework 3.5 or 4.6 development environment (many programs require them).
• Hyper-V: Microsoft’s virtualization technology that allows you to run virtual machines on your PC without external software.
• Internet Explorer 11: if you still need to use Internet Explorer on your PC, you need to know that it is still available on Windows 10.
• Multimedia features (Windows Media Player 12 in Windows 10): still a great program to listen to music on the PC
• Print to Microsoft PDF: the function that allows you to “print” documents directly to PDF files rather than to a real printer.
• Windows subsystem for Linux: the function that allows you to install and activate Linux commands in Windows 10
• Windows Defender Application Guard: a special version of the browser to protect it from all internet risks.
• Windows SandBox: to activate the Windows 10 Sandbox (recently added function).

 

Functions that are not needed and can be deactivated

In another article, we have already seen which features of Windows can be added or removed
Below the features, you can disable (I am using Windows 10 but these indications are also good for Windows 7 and 8 in large part), if not needed (these are not actually removed and can be reactivated at any time without problems).

• Internet Explorer 11: If you do not use it but believe that you can do without it now, you can disable Internet Explorer 11 from this window by removing the cross. Just make sure that Internet Explorer is still important to properly open sites like the one to download Microsoft patches or some old public administration sites.
• Legacy Components – DirectPlay: DirectPlay is an obsolete API that was once part of Microsoft’s DirectX. Some old games may still require its presence, but not modern games. If you don’t play PC games like Age of Empires, then you can deactivate it.
• Printing and digitalization services
• Under this category of functionality, there are various services to print from the internet, to send faxes, to manage a scanner and to other things. In particular, the Internet Printing Client allows printing using network printers or using the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) protocol. If you do not use the computer to print or only use a local printer connected by USB cable, then you can deactivate it. The same applies to the Fax and Scanner service, if not used or if managed with the program supplied with the scanner.
• API Support RDC (Remote Differential Compression): Microsoft introduced RDC API support in Windows Server 2003 R2 and is only used by a few server-side programs. Almost certainly it is not needed on a home PC and can be deactivated.
• Windows PowerShell 2.0
• Windows PowerShell 2.0 is the old version of an advanced command prompt that should not be confused with PowerShell, an integral part of Windows.
• Currently, on Windows 10 PCs, there is Powershell 5.0 so, unless you need PowerShell 2.0 support, you can disable it.
• Windows Process Activation Service: This category of functionality is aimed at developers of websites and programs, which need not be kept active.
• Client workbooks: This is a useful feature in business computers to access files shared on the network in offline mode on any associated device. On a home PC, it can be deactivated
• XPS Services and XPS Viewer Services: The XPS format was created by Microsoft to try to impose it as an alternative instead of the Adobe PDF. By now we can say that the XPS has failed so the services to create XPS and the XPS Viewer program to open them no longer need and can be deactivated.