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Yes, I've done that already as per the installation guide I linked in my original post, even with it enabled it still doesn't show up. (I should also mention, I did ensure that the developer package successfully downloaded as well)
– a2xia
Commented Jun 8, 2017 at 7:59
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It worked with Powershell! Thank you very much! A followup question, if I may: when I'm running Bash now in Powershell there appears to be an encoding issue (the characters appear as boxes). I am running Windows 10 Home Chinese version which for some silly reason cannot have its OS language changed, is that the reason why Bash shows up strangely in Powershell?
– a2xia
Commented Jun 8, 2017 at 8:34
Interesting; my corporate Win10 laptop does have Developer Mode turned on, and the Registry settings are correct. But, Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux is not shown in the list of features that can be enabled. Is it possible that it was disabled by the brilliant minds that set up my corporate laptop? Or perhaps the developer package was not properly downloaded -- how to make it re-install?
– Blisterpeanuts
Commented Apr 8, 2018 at 16:53
This question was asked before 1709 was released, which means this answer as-is, is correct and does indeed answer the question. There are already newer questions which address newer builds of Windows 10.
– Ramhound
Commented Apr 11, 2018 at 20:37
Note that WSL only shows up among the available features if you use the Control Panel, but not in the Settings app.
– Rörd
Commented Aug 7, 2020 at 11:10

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