Telnet is a feature that most of us dont use,infact most of the computer users would not have even heard of it before.So before trying to enable TELNET let us see what it is:
TELNET (TErminaL NETwork) is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communications facility via a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with TELNET control information in an 8-bit byte oriented data connection over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
In Microsoft Windows XP and previous versions of Microsoft Windows Telnet is enabled by default but in Microsoft Windows 7,Telnet has been disabled by default so to enable it follow the procedures given bleow:
1]Click on START Button.Enter Control Panel.
2]Navigate to Programs.
3]Click on Turn Windows Features ON or OFF.
4]Tick on Telnet Client [Not Telnet Server].
5]Click OK.
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