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When complete it will display as below, you can now close the window.

Click the OK button to proceed, this will display a screen while the changes apply.

The “Turn Windows Features on or off” window should open, scroll down and select “Telnet Client”.

Click the start button, then start typing “Turn Windows features on or off”, and select this option, as shown below.

Enabling the telnet client through the graphical user interface That’s it, after a few seconds telnet should be ready to use. dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient Run the below command in command prompt with administrator permissions. You can enable the client either by command line or through the graphical interface.Įnabling the telnet client through command line 'telnet' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Update October 21st 2015: I have also created a video showing the process:įirstly you need to enable the telnet client, if you don’t enable it you’ll get a result similar to the below message when trying to use it. With telnet we can get a better understanding of what’s going on. It may be that the connectivity is fine but there is a problem with the web server, or that the web server is stopped and the port is not listening at all, for instance. This is great when you’re trying to troubleshoot network connectivity problems, for example, say we have a web server which should be listening on port 80 to serve HTTP traffic but we are not able to load a web page, by using telnet to connect to the web server on port 80 we can verify the connectivity. By default the telnet client in Microsoft’s Windows operating systems is disabled, this is unfortunate as it is an extremely useful tool which can be used for testing TCP connectivity to external hosts on a specified port.