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Windows 10/11 Feature Experience Pack mystery unveiled
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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It seems like if you got the newWindows 10 2004 update, you also got a new Feature Experience Pack.
An app with the exact same name appeared in theMicrosoft Storesince last year in December and it’s still there but it doesn’t give you anything to work with.
Now, the folks fromZDNetspotted it and also provided a few clues on what’s going on.
What is the Windows 10 Feature Experience Pack?
This package is installed on every PC with the May 2020 Update and up, including the latestWindows 10 build 19645.
You can see by yourself by going to Settings, then System and System information and scroll down toWindowsspecifications. You will see a new item there called Experience.
Although Microsoft didn’t say anything about what it is and what it contains, you can see a reference in theFeatureson Demand package.
Feature Experience Pack mystery lifted
TheWindowsFeature Experience Pack is a part of theFeatureson Demand forWindows10 andWindowsServer, as listed in aMicrosoft documentlisting the Available Features on Demand.As you can see from the caption above, the package is only 44.15MB and it containsWindowsClient Shell Components and somefeaturescritical toWindowsfunctionality.
Microsoft also added the warning to not remove this package.
TheFeatureson Demand package also includes Internet Explorer, Notepad, the DirectX Configuration Database, Paint, PowerShell ISe, Quick Assist, the Print Management Console, and more.
Claudiu Andone
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His abrupt interest in computers started when he saw the first Home Computer as a kid. However, his passion for Windows and everything related became obvious when he became a sys admin in a computer science high school.
With 14 years of experience in writing about everything there is to know about science and technology, Claudiu also likes rock music, chilling in the garden, and Star Wars. May the force be with you, always!
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