# Enabling features

With DISMTools you can enable features of an image to add optional components to a Windows installation. This action can be accessed by clicking Commands > OS packages > Enable feature..., or by clicking the "Enable feature..." button.

## Target OS support

This action is supported on the following platforms:

Platform | Supported?
--- | ---
Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 | ✔
Windows 8/Server 2012 | ✔
Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2 | ✔
Windows 10/Server 2016/2019/2022 | ✔
Windows 11/Server 2025 | ✔

This action is supported on DISMTools 0.1.1 and newer

## Usage

You need to specify the features you want to enable on your Windows image or installation, and specify settings in order to get the result you want.

## Options

- If the parent package is not a Windows Foundation package, the name of the parent package needs to be provided. You can perform a quick package lookup to specify the name of the parent package

- If a feature, whose state can be found in the list, has previously been removed from the image or installation; a feature source needs to be provided. You can browse your file system for an appropriate source, or get the source from group policy
- If you strictly want this operation to use the source and not Windows Update, untick the Windows Update contact option. Do note that this only applies to online installations
- If you want to enable all parent features of the specified features, tick the "Enable all parent features" option
- If you want, you can commit the image after enabling the features (Windows images only)

## Related topics

- Command-line help

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