telnet windows 7 not working

Question

I have a Windows 7 computer, and I'm trying to work with telnet. I installed/enabled telnet (via control panel, since telnet isn't enabled by default), restarted the terminal, restarted my computer, etc.

But telnet still doesn't work. I'm getting the error : 'telnet' is not recognized as an internal or external command...

I tried editing the PATH environment variable as well, but that hasn't worked either.

I would greatly appreciate any advice.

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

Looks like your telnet is not installed. Simply execute the below command in your command prompt and wait till the mouse progress icon disappears. It works on windows 7. I am not sure on other machines

pkgmgr /iu:"TelnetClient"