I use Foobar2000 it is far superior to Windows Media Player.

This has been one of my favorite Arris tweak/tips; as it lets you uninstall and selectively install with more granularity the Server Manager. I'm curious though Arris (or perhaps halladayrules knows); why you include "OptionalFeatures.exe.mui"? It doesn't seem to be needed by the "OptionalFeatures.exe" in any way I can discern... And why the elaborate launch method, when just running the exe directly or with a shortcut appears to work just as well?

I'm assuming there's something I've missed here, but just dropping "OptionalFeatures.exe" in "%SystemRoot%\System32" directory and running it seems to work fine. The Windows 7 help file is still installed for "OptionalFeatures.exe" in Server 2008 R2 which strikes me as kind of funny/odd...



Lastly, might anyone know where "OptionalFeatures.exe" reads it's on/off or install/remove information from? Perhaps from .inf files or script somewhere? I'm thinking that still other features, components, and sub-systems might possibly be added to this dialog, similarly to what you could do with some simple ;hide; edits and feature additions to the Server 2003 "sysoc.inf" script for it's Add/Remove Programs dialog...

Multilingual User Interface (MUI) does as its name implies. It allows the Windows interface of the associated application to run in different languages. For example in Internet Explorer (iexplore.exe.mui) on the menu bar you normally see

File --- Edit -- View --- Favorites --- Tools --- Help

However if you installed the French language on your PC you would see

fichier ---modifier --- vue --- favoris --- outils --- aider

Yes, I quite know that, thank you... Perhaps I didn't make that part of my post clear; why does Arris include the English "OptionalFeatures.exe.mui" with his little download, when OptionalFeatures.exe doesn't need it for English? All the menus present properly in English without it... Or, does the English "*.mui" have to be present for other languages to work? Similarly why all the launch options?

Ah, I reread Arris's post and it looks like perhaps the mui is required for getting the shell integration with the control panel to work... Unfortunately for reasons I can't uncover "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL appwiz.cpl,,2" did not add this to my control panel link... Still the exe works so I'm a happy camper, but a curious one...