Vista Telnet

Hey for those of you that are IT professionals you might have noticed that Vista by default removes the telnet function. I found this very annoying yesterday and after digging around and searching the web i found that it is still available just not installed by default...

Here are the steps to make it available again:
1. From the Start menu, click Control Panel.
2. Select Programs.
3. From the menu of the left, select Turn Windows Features On or Off.
4. Scroll down, and then check the "Telnet client" box.
5. Click OK.

Vista will process the install and then Telnet will be right back where you expect it.

I hope this helps someone avoid a major headache...
~Cheers

Just to possibly help you with any other future things like this, I've found it best when searching for something, to first bring up help on the desktop (click in any vacant area and press F1)... If you had done that first and entered 'telnet', the first entry (the faq) gives you those exact steps (and may have saved you a 1/2 day)... The faq even gives you assistance in setting up your own daemon er.. ah.. server service.

I agree with riser, most users probably don't care about telnet and I would bet that MS didn't include any telnet support this go around, just like they didn't automatically include simple tcpip support in (or before) XP.

good luck.

On Technet there is some talk of dropping Telnet in future releases because it is used so infrequently now and all of the security problems with it. If they did, it would probably be one of those tools that they would have as a completely separate Internet download from Microsoft like they're doing with some of their other tools.