Comments on: Windows 7: Install the Telnet Client

By: Deepak

Deepak — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:54:00 +0000

Thank you! was looking out for this on Windows 7…

By: Blob

Blob — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:34:00 +0000

Telnet ownz you foolz. nothing is secure…

By: Bubu

Bubu — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:04:00 +0000

Thx for this tip, I badly missed telnet on win7 simply to ping some IP/port that would refuse actual pings.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:29:00 +0000

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

By: LDS

LDS — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:18:00 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:52:00 +0000

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.

By: russ

russ — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:01:00 +0000

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!

By: FettesPS

FettesPS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:34:00 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:24:00 +0000

But after that it says something like this:”Fatal error.Not all of the features have been changed!”
Any ideas????

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:14:00 +0000

I agree, and I don’t even think telnet should be allowed as an installable option.