If you need a telnet client on a Microsoft Windows system, e.g., a Windows Vista, 7, 8, Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 system, etc., you can install PuTTY, which is probably the most popular telnet client for Microsoft Windows systems, created by Simon Tatham, or you can install one provided by Microsoft from a command line interface (CLI), i.e., a command prompt, using the
pkgmgr
command as shown below:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Administrator>pkgmgr /iu:"TelnetClient" C:\Users\Administrator>
After you enter the pkgmgr /iu:"TelnetClient" command, you won't
see any indication that the software has been installed. The command prompt
will be redisplayed and you may have to wait a couple of minutes afterwards
for the installation to be completed depending on the speed of your system. If
you see a User
Account Control dialog box displayed when you enter the command, provide
a userid and password for an administrator account and confirm that you want to
allow the action it displays.
After you've installed the telnet client application, you can type
telnet at a command prompt to start the client, which will
take you to the telnet client prompt:
Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Client Escape Character is 'CTRL+]' Microsoft Telnet>
The telnet client program, telnet.exe is installed in
\windows\system32.
C:\Windows>dir /s telnet.exe
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 9420-A68C
Directory of C:\Windows\System32
07/13/2009 08:39 PM 79,872 telnet.exe
1 File(s) 79,872 bytes
Directory of C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-telnet-client_31bf3856ad
364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_1426830c3ebb712d
07/13/2009 08:39 PM 79,872 telnet.exe
1 File(s) 79,872 bytes
Total Files Listed:
2 File(s) 159,744 bytes
0 Dir(s) 61,068,718,080 bytes free
