How to activate (enable) telnet client on Windows XP and Windows
1. Enable / Disable Telnet Client command on Windows XP By default telnet is enabled on Windows XP. However on some messed up Windows installations, cause of viruses or some custom users changes the PATH variable set for command prompt to C:\WINDOWS\system32\ is missing and therefore typing in telnet in cmd.exe fails to find the command. Thus it is good idea before trying to enable telnet with dism command to try running in Command Prompt C:\WINDOWS\system32\telnet.exe, If the command is not found by giving it full path, then you can read down the article how to enable it. Launch command prompt cmd.exe and type: dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient dism command enable disable telnet client command on windows 7 and windows 2008 servers Launching again: dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient Disables telnet, whether it is enabled on system, on some systems XP admins might want to do this for increasing system security 2. E...