Windows 7: Install the Telnet Client
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Microsoft Windows 7 By default, Windows 7 doesn’t install the Telnet client. The client is for text-based communication with remote systems. You can install it by following these steps:
1. Click the Start Orb, then select Control Panel.
2. Select Programs and Features.
3. Select Turn Windows features on or off.
4. Check the Telnet Client checkbox.
5. Click OK.
6. A box will appear showing the installation process.
When it finishes running, the client is installed.
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Tom said on May 15, 2009
Why would you install Telnet??? Use “putty” or something else, which uses secure connections!
dan said on May 18, 2009
totally agree with Tom. I think we all should be happy that telnet was not installed…
Michael said on May 20, 2009
I agree, and I don’t even think telnet should be allowed as an installable option.
Anonymous said on August 28, 2009
But after that it says something like this:”Fatal error.Not all of the features have been changed!”
Any ideas????
FettesPS said on November 12, 2009
I agree that Telnet is insecure but there are many reasons for wanting to use it. It’s a great diagnostic tool, need to see if your mail server is working properly? Quickly telnet to that port and see if it responds. Another example is if you need to connect to an old server which only supports telnet. I have to work on an old Cobalt RAQ server that does not have SSH, so I am forced to use Telnet when I need to log into it.
And besides, its not like we’re installing Telnet SERVER… just the client.
russ said on December 29, 2009
Telnet and even better Hyperterminal are just plain easy to use. I dont care about what is the l33t hacker way of doing things when I spent 10 hours moving systems and am looking at 6 more hours getting everything up!
Anonymous said on May 3, 2010
I try this but the picture in step 4 is not what I get. The box appears but it is blank and there are no boxes to check or uncheck. Therefore, I am unable to enable telnet.
LDS said on September 2, 2010
Putty is secure only if you use SSH. Otherwise is even less secure to connect for example to a Windows Telnet server (and 2008 can use it) because it only supports plain-text authentication.
Joel said on September 13, 2010
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Bubu said on October 14, 2010
Thx for this tip, I badly missed telnet on win7 simply to ping some IP/port that would refuse actual pings.
Blob said on October 22, 2010
Telnet ownz you foolz. nothing is secure…
Deepak said on November 19, 2010
Thank you! was looking out for this on Windows 7…