How to Enable Telnet Command in Vista

Submitted by Srikanth on Wednesday, 10 September 200810 Comments

Most of you are familiar with the telnet command. It is one of the well known Windows IP Utilities. In fact the telnet command is most important for sending a fake email which i have discussed in my previous post. If you are using Windows XP the telnet command is available by default.But if you use Windows Vista the telnet command is disabled by default.

So when you try to use the telnet command in Windows Vista you get the following error message.

‘telnet’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.

You get this error in Vista because unlike XP, Vista does not support telnet command by default. So, for this you have to manually enable/turn on the telnet feature in Vista.

Here’s the step by step procedure to enable telnet feature (telnet command) in Windows Vista.

1. Goto the Control Panel.

2. Click on the sub heading Uninstall a program under the main heading Programs.

NOTE: IF you are in the Classic View click on Programs and Features.

3. Now in the left panel under the Tasks select the option Turn Windows features on or off.

4. Now a new window opens. In the new window select the following

Telnet Client
Telnet Server (optional)

5. After selecting click on OK.

Now wait for few minutes till the telnet feature is installed. Once the telnet feature is installed you can goto the command prompt and use the telnet command. System restart is not required.

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10 Comments »

h47ch1 said:

Thnx m8 worked like pie! keep the gr8 work!

- 30 December 2008 at 8:15 PM

Slim0123 said:

If you prefer a bit of security on your system then don’t enable telnet server coz it opens up some vulnerabilities of system that can be hacked by any good knowhow person

- 31 December 2008 at 12:23 AM

ahmad said:

i tried to do as u said but in my windows features didnt display anything.
im on windows vista business.dunno or doesnt it work on vista bussiness?

- 14 May 2009 at 4:20 PM

Srikanth (author) said:

@ ahmad

Wait for a few minutes and it’ll display all the options where in you can install telnet feautre.

- 15 May 2009 at 7:10 AM

jitendra said:

gr8 brother………….

- 14 July 2009 at 5:36 PM

Jebastin said:

thanks a loc. i wanna kiss you

- 30 July 2009 at 7:06 AM

MLD said:

Goddamn Youmake me Happy MAN!! thanks a milion

- 2 May 2010 at 9:17 PM

Himanshu said:

Thank you.. it worked..

- 11 May 2010 at 11:59 AM

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- 6 June 2010 at 11:32 PM

voinuoc said:

it’s great! thanks much!

- 20 July 2010 at 9:11 PM