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…!
March 15th, 2009 at 11:03 am
thanks so much! This is what I need.
April 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
WOW thanks perfrect just what I was looking for and more
May 14th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Thanks ¡¡¡
Good choice to admin telecom equipments
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.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Thanx!!!
September 16th, 2009 at 5:14 am
thanks man
March 30th, 2010 at 12:47 am
thanks for your help. it was helpful.
September 2nd, 2010 at 10:11 pm
How long does this take? It's been sitting here for over 10 minutes and the progress bar is STILL at zero!
July 23rd, 2011 at 7:15 pm
[...] It seems that just when I thought it was safe to go into the proverbial water again, Vista surprises me yet again (or maybe not). Not being a networking bloke I don't telnet regularly but last night I needed to test some server connectivity that could best be done via telnet and had to realize that it was conveniently missing … but help is at hand … More [...]