Sunday, July 28, 2013

How to Enable Telnet Client in Windows 7

 
It's very rare that I use Telnet these days, so it took a long time for me to notice that by default it was not packaged with Windows 7.  I did some research and found out that this was also true for Windows Vista.  More than likely this was an attempt to make Windows more secure by default, as Telnet is very insecure and whenever you have the choice you should always use SSH.  However, with that being said, you can quickly re-enable Telnet by following these steps:
  1. Click Start
  2. Control Panel
  3. Programs And Features
  4. Turn Windows features on or off
  5. Check Telnet Client
  6. Hit OK
After that you can start Telnet via Command Prompt.
Another Method:
  • Open a command prompt window.
  • Click Start,type cmd in start search box, and then press Enter.
  • Type the following command
pkgmgr /iu:"TelnetClient"
  • If the User Account Control(UAC) dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is want you want, and then click continue.
  • When the command prompt appears again, the installation is complete

Sunday, July 21, 2013

How to convert a GPT (GUID Partition Table) hard disk to MBR

1.Open up command prompt
2. Type "diskpart" and press Enter. You will be presented with a DISKPART prompt.
3. Select the hard disk you wish to clean by using the select disk command. By default, the primary hard disk is classified as hard disk 0. Type in "list disk". Find the number of the disk you want. Then type in "select disk x" x = number of the disk you want
4. Type in "clean"
5. Open up Disk Management, and you will find it has a new disk to initialize, make sure you check mbr this time