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how to activate telnet in windows 7 without administration

How can I enable/activate commandline telnet without having admin privileges? I don't wish to use putty. I wish to use native telnet that starts from commandline.

Solution

  • This is not necessarily the answer to activate telnet, but this does answer how to get telnet working from commandlline on windows 7 without having admin privileges and without putty.

    Answer is pretty simple:

    1. Install cygwin with inetutils for telnet http://www.question-defense.com/2010/11/30/install-telnet-using-cygwin-on-windows-7,
    2. Add cygwin bin to my local env PATH variable https://superuser.com/questions/25037/change-environment-variables-as-standard-user-windows-7