▷ How to activate telnet in windows 10

The Windows 10 Telnet client is disabled by default. It is possible that at some point you need to activate this beef client to test certain connections to a server you have or to do tests such as remote access to other computers from yours. Today we are going to see how we can activate telnet Windows 10.

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What is and why we use telnet Windows 10

Telnet is a TCP / IP protocol used in command mode that allows us to access computers remotely. By means of this command we will be able to access and log in to a remote computer, having access to all the available data on that computer.

It is typically used for technical support between computers on a network and servers in a secure environment. In this way we can access them to modify configurations or detect errors in them without having to go physically.

The operation is very simple: first, both computers must have Telnet activated in order to use it. In our team, the Telnet client sends a request to the host remotely. In turn, it will respond to us requesting a username and password. If the information entered is correct, the host will give us access to your system through an account in the command terminal.

We will need to have configured an account on the remote computer (Telnet server) so that we can access it.

Windows 10, like previous versions such as Vista, 7 or Windows 8 does not have the command activated as standard, so it will be necessary to activate Telnet Windows 10 manually.

Activate Telnet Windows 10 in command mode

We can activate the telnet client through the command prompt in an easy and direct way. For this we will do the following steps:

• To access the command prompt we will go to Start and write "cmd" and right click on the application to run it as administrator.

• Once inside the command prompt we will have to write the following command:

dism / online / enable-feature / featurename: telnetclient

• Then we press Enter to execute it. In this way we will have activated Telnet Windows 10

Activate Telnet Windows 10 graphically

In addition to being able to activate Telnet through commands, we can also do it graphically. It is a little longer, but surely we will memorize it better. Let's proceed:

• The first thing will be to access the start menu and write "Control Panel". Once this is located, we will click to access it.

• For convenience we recommend choosing the view of the configuration panel in icon mode. Locating the icon that says "Programs and features" we will access it

• Now click on the option that appears on the side that says "Enable or disable Windows features"

• Now we will look in the “Telnet Client” list and activate its box

In this way we will have the Telnet client active to be able to use it on the computer.

Telnet limitations in Windows 10

We must take into account a very important aspect of Telnet in Windows 10, and that is that this operating system does not have a Telnet server. The consequence of this is that we can only use Windows as a Telnet client computer, but in no case can we use it as a server to access it.

In previous versions of the operating system such as Windows 7 or Windows Vista we do have a telnet server, and of course in Windows Server.

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The Telnet protocol is itself a rather insecure system for remote access to computers, so Microsoft has disabled the possibility of turning it into a server for its desktop system.