Windows 7 – Enable Telnet

Posted in Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista
14
Jun

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. 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.


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195 Responses to “Windows 7 – Enable Telnet”

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  1. Artem says:
    June 4, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    Thank you.

  2. doug says:
    June 11, 2010 at 11:48 am

    Thanks! Worked great

  3. mlike says:
    June 13, 2010 at 7:45 pm

    thanks!!! I’m working on my ccna and I was stunned that win 7 did’nt have telnet by default..

  4. kit says:
    June 14, 2010 at 8:23 am

    Nice one, Cheers pal

  5. Dan says:
    June 23, 2010 at 8:50 am

    Just got a new PC from our helpdesk after my XP box cratered and your steps to enable TELNET were spot-on! Thanks very much!

  6. Top Dawg says:
    June 30, 2010 at 10:28 am

    Thanks alot !! Works a treat!

  7. Aloni says:
    July 2, 2010 at 6:19 am

    Thanks mate

  8. Anderson says:
    July 4, 2010 at 8:43 am

    Beautiful and simple.
    Many thanks

  9. rahul says:
    July 13, 2010 at 10:29 am

    thank you sir.

  10. Wildan says:
    July 14, 2010 at 8:35 am

    thanks for sharing, simple and working very well. tks….

  11. felendo says:
    July 15, 2010 at 4:25 pm

    Thankyou!!! your information is very useful!!!!

  12. pahan says:
    July 16, 2010 at 4:28 am

    thanks!!

  13. BH says:
    July 17, 2010 at 8:58 am

    Thanks for the tip. Worked great!

  14. kitipan says:
    July 17, 2010 at 10:19 pm

    Thanks!

  15. Y says:
    July 21, 2010 at 6:26 am

    thank you!

  16. rajeev says:
    July 22, 2010 at 10:57 am

    thanks a lot.

  17. adi says:
    July 22, 2010 at 4:13 pm

    Many thanks … works like charm

  18. SAGAR says:
    July 22, 2010 at 11:40 pm

    thanks buddy ! it works

  19. Abu Dabu says:
    July 25, 2010 at 5:12 am

    Thanks man. Worked like a charm.

  20. Anas says:
    July 25, 2010 at 4:04 pm

    Thanks

  21. kulo says:
    July 27, 2010 at 8:36 am

    thanks

  22. kdot says:
    July 28, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    thanks

  23. Ando says:
    July 29, 2010 at 12:33 am

    Cheers!

  24. Lucian says:
    July 29, 2010 at 3:15 am

    “An error has occurred,not all features were installed corectly”. Why my OS is telling me that?:|

  25. Bilal Nusrat says:
    July 30, 2010 at 4:56 am

    Thank You !!!

  26. FettesPS says:
    July 30, 2010 at 1:49 pm

    @Lucian – I’m guessing because not all of the features were installed correctly

  27. lucky says:
    July 31, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    Man you are a star!! you saved my time, which I will be spending on reading books,

    Information is really helpful

    Lucky

  28. Adak says:
    August 1, 2010 at 2:21 am

    Thank you

  29. techmostwanted says:
    August 1, 2010 at 8:07 am

    is there any downloadable executable Telnet? as i trying to use Telnet in a non admin account in a computer lab :D

  30. Hound says:
    August 2, 2010 at 12:03 am

    Much thanks, the Windows support site was too cagey to give direct help. Glad you posted!

  31. John says:
    August 4, 2010 at 9:28 am

    Thank you! Very helpful!

  32. FettesPS says:
    August 5, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    @techmostwanted – Yes, you can download and use PuTTY to connect to telnet. It’s the standard for SSH but also works with other protocols.

  33. ahmed lotfey says:
    August 5, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    thanks man

  34. Raza says:
    August 6, 2010 at 12:40 am

    Thanks

  35. KEDAR mantri says:
    August 7, 2010 at 5:57 am

    Thanks for sharing info. Cheers. – Kedar.

  36. jab says:
    August 9, 2010 at 7:26 am

    thanks, its work at my End… :)

  37. Manoj says:
    August 10, 2010 at 12:47 am

    thanxxxx……

  38. achyuta rao says:
    August 10, 2010 at 6:52 am

    great work. its very helpful.

  39. Zakes Tlape says:
    August 11, 2010 at 4:09 am

    Thank you very much. It works for me.

  40. nabanita saikia says:
    August 13, 2010 at 11:16 am

    Thank you very much. It was very helpful and the stepwise guideline worked fine without ant difficulty for my laptop. Thanks again.

  41. N.Prabhakar says:
    August 14, 2010 at 9:16 am

    thanks a lot

  42. Ramadas Kaipa says:
    August 16, 2010 at 1:25 am

    Can you tell me how can we have Hyperterminal enabled on Windows 7 ???

  43. ys_sunshine says:
    August 17, 2010 at 3:18 am

    Thanks~~~

  44. Asish says:
    August 19, 2010 at 2:14 am

    Thanks alot.
    it was very helpful.
    keep it up.

  45. Ron says:
    August 19, 2010 at 10:17 pm

    Thanks for the info. It helps.

  46. Tim says:
    August 20, 2010 at 5:03 pm

    Worked perfectly. Thanks!

  47. MetalRush says:
    August 21, 2010 at 9:21 am

    Thanks pal :)

  48. y0wza says:
    August 21, 2010 at 12:28 pm

    Thanks for the quick help.

  49. Dan DuĊĦek says:
    August 21, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    Thanks :) .

  50. Joel says:
    August 22, 2010 at 11:03 pm

    Thank you very much for this information.

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