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.


June 25th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
thank you for this.
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
September 28th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
This is a wonderful tip. Now i'm beginning to feel a little comfortable using Vista. Thanks.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Great…!