I installed the Windows telnet client (telnet.exe
) on Windows 8 Enterprise Edition (RTM - fresh install) via Turn Windows features on or off. However I can't seem to launch it from an Administrator command prompt.
I did a full search of the C:
drive and can see the executable residing in C:\Windows\System32
:
I can also see the executable in explorer:
In both of the above cases I can launch the client by double clicking but for some reason it's not visible in my Administrator cmd.exe
command prompt (or PowerShell for that matter):
Also, as you can see in the above screenshot, C:\Windows\system32
is present and correct in my PATH
environment variable. Other system executables launch just fine (tasklist.exe
for example).
For reasons that are too long winded to explain I can't use a third party telnet client such as PuTTY.
Can anyone shed any light on why this is happening?
I also tried a reboot but that's not helped either.