1. Enable / Disable Telnet Client command on Windows XP
By default telnet is enabled on Windows XP. However on some messed up Windows installations, cause of viruses or some custom users changes the PATH variable set for command prompt to
C:WINDOWSsystem32
is missing and therefore typing in telnet in cmd.exe fails to find the command. Thus it is good idea before trying to enable telnet with dism command to try running in Command Prompt
C:WINDOWSsystem32telnet.exe,
If the command is not found by giving it full path, then you can read down the article how to enable it.
Launch command prompt cmd.exe and type:
dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient
Launching again:
dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient
Disables telnet, whether it is enabled on system, on some systems XP admins might want to do this for increasing system security
2. Enabling Telnet client using XP Graphical interface
Start (button) -> Control Panel -> Add / Remove Programs-> (Click on Turn Windows features on and Off )
3. Turn on Windows Telnet Client on Win 7 using Graphical Environment
Probably out of security, concerns within Microsoft took a wise decision to make Telnet Client disabled by default on Windows 7. Thus just trying to run it via cmd.exe users one gets 'telnet is not recognized as internal or external command, operable program or batch file'
Start (button) -> Control Panel -> Program and Features -> (Click on Turn Windows features on and Off )
You will get a dialog listing a number of things you can turn on you need to set tick on
Telnet Client
Then a pop-up User Account Control will require you to enter administrator user password (if not already logged in as administrator).
Further on launch cmd.exe and type telnet
Start (menu) -> Start Search -> cmd.exe
or pressing Windows Button + R and type in cmd.exe and type telnet
4. Turn on ( Install ) Win 7 Telnet Client from command line:
Launch command prompt (cmd.exe) and type in:
C:Windows> pkgmgr /iu:"TelnetClient"
Installing using pkgmgr /ui: "TelnetClient" should be able to install telnet also on Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2 Servers and Windows Vista
Happy telnet-ing 🙂
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how to uninstall telnet client and server from windows server 2003 .
i followed the below steps
control panel -add or remove programs – add or remove windows components
but i cannot see telnet here .
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