Restore telnet.exe in Windows Vista

I'm slowly moving my Windows computers to Vista, mainly because XP's WebDAV client is horribly broken, and I want to synchronize my OneNote notebooks. I suppose I could move my WebDAV repository to Apache, but that's also a pain. Anyways, I was troubleshooting Vista's enterprise activation, and wanted to see if the KMS server was listening on port 1688. Except telnet.exe is gone.

Gone, but not forgotten

It's fairly easy to bring it back. Choost Run from the Start menu and type optionalfeatures.exe. This will bring up the Windows Features window. Check the box by Telnet Client, click OK and enjoy your insecure plain-text client.

Vista - Restore Telnet Client

 

Posted on Friday, January 18th, 2008 at 4:12 pm | Filed under Technology
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11 Responses to “Restore telnet.exe in Windows Vista”

  1. MWH Says:
    June 25th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

    thank you for this.

  2. --70nY-- Says:
    September 8th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

    Hey thanks for the post man… i was in need of telnet. well now i think vista actually paid off…thanks

  3. NAJ Says:
    September 28th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    This is a wonderful tip. Now i'm beginning to feel a little comfortable using Vista. Thanks.

  4. Muthu K Says:
    October 8th, 2008 at 9:51 am

    Great…!

  5. tuan Says:
    March 15th, 2009 at 11:03 am

    thanks so much! This is what I need.

  6. K-man Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    WOW thanks perfrect just what I was looking for and more

  7. hector olson Says:
    May 14th, 2009 at 10:32 am

    Thanks ¡¡¡

    Good choice to admin telecom equipments

  8. Raj Says:
    May 16th, 2009 at 2:06 am

    Does not install at all… just sits there and then says could not complete all tasks! Im going crazy.

  9. Steve Says:
    May 20th, 2009 at 11:31 am

    Thanx!!!

  10. hemanth Says:
    September 16th, 2009 at 5:14 am

    thanks man

  11. max Says:
    March 30th, 2010 at 12:47 am

    thanks for your help. it was helpful.

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