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Wiki  >  TechNet Articles  >  How to Enable Telnet Client in Windows 7

How to Enable Telnet Client in Windows 7

How to Enable Telnet Client in Windows 7

[ This article is posted at FettesPS.com website : http://www.fettesps.com/windows-7-enable-telnet]

It's very rare that I use Telnet these days, so it took a long time for me to notice that by default it was not packaged with Windows 7.  I did some research and found out that this was also true for Windows Vista.  More than likely this was an attempt to make Windows more secure by default, as Telnet is very insecure and whenever you have the choice you should always use SSH.  However, with that being said, you can quickly re-enable Telnet by following these steps:
  1. Click Start
  2. Control Panel
  3. Programs And Features
  4. Turn Windows features on or off
  5. Check Telnet Client
  6. Hit OK
After that you can start Telnet via Command Prompt.

Another Method:

  • Open a command prompt window.
  • Click Start,type cmd in start search box, and then press Enter.
  • Type the following command
pkgmgr /iu:"TelnetClient"
  • If the User Account Control(UAC) dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is want you want, and then click continue.
  • When the command prompt appears again, the installation is complete


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  • 14 Jul 2013 11:09 AM

    psilokan edited Revision 9. Comment: More formatting fixes

  • 14 Jul 2013 11:05 AM

    psilokan edited Revision 7. Comment: Article was plagarized from another source, updated links and text to match original article dated June 14, 2009

  • 14 Jan 2013 12:33 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 5. Comment: Updated Title per guidelines

  • 13 Jan 2013 11:56 AM

    Richard Mueller edited Revision 3. Comment: Removed (en-US) from title, added tag

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  • Posted by
    on 14 Jul 2013 11:09 AM

    psilokan edited Revision 9. Comment: More formatting fixes

  • Posted by
    on 14 Jul 2013 11:06 AM

    psilokan edited Revision 8. Comment: Fixed formatting

  • Posted by
    on 14 Jul 2013 11:05 AM

    psilokan edited Revision 7. Comment: Article was plagarized from another source, updated links and text to match original article dated June 14, 2009

  • Posted by
    on 1 Feb 2013 6:07 AM

    Thank you this solved my problem

  • Posted by
    on 25 Jan 2013 5:38 AM

    Excellent; thanks.

  • Posted by
    on 14 Jan 2013 12:33 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 5. Comment: Updated Title per guidelines

  • Posted by
    on 13 Jan 2013 11:56 AM

    Richard Mueller edited Revision 3. Comment: Removed (en-US) from title, added tag

  • Posted by
    on 1 Nov 2012 9:01 PM

    Dear Brian Schalme,As mentioned by MR ElMajdal telnet client/server is not enabled in Windows 7.You have to add the Telnet Client Windows Feature.

  • Posted by
    on 1 Nov 2012 12:37 PM

    These steps did not work for me. I still get "'telnet' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

    operable program or batch file." When i go telnet /?

  • Posted by
    on 1 Jul 2012 11:10 PM

    Thanks for support.:)

  • Posted by
    on 21 May 2012 1:36 AM

    Good one..step by step

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