Enable Telnet in Windows 7

It’s very rare that anyone use TELNET these days, but those who are new in the field of IT must have heard about TELNET and could have tried it on their PC. But by default it is not packaged with Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Reason for this is that telnet is not secure and Microsoft decided to leave it out because they were trying to update their level of security. However, you can easily make TELNET command work on Windows 7 and Windows Vista by following these steps:

1. Go to Start
2. Open Control Panel
3. Click on Programs And Features
4. Turn Windows features on or off
5. Check Telnet Client
6. Hit OK

After that you can start Telnet via Command Prompt and can try various commands.

For eg: telnet yahoo.com 80