Telnet.exe - Cant Delete Or Replace (W2K)

[saburu]

I wanted to replace my telnet.exe in my C:\WIN2K\system32\ folder, but the original keeps coming back. My searches come up with nothing pertinent. Thanks, Saburu

[BertImmenschuh]

Are you wanting to replace telnet.exe with a different file or because it is corrupted? Is your hard drive NTFS or FAT32?

[saburu]

neither, I'm trying to delete it or replace it with another program, it is not corrupted. People log onto this machine and do telnet to the outside, can't get them to switch to a more secure program, so I wanted to remove the telnet so it could no longer be used, all have Administrator access. hard drive is NTFS if that helps.

[BertImmenschuh]

I don't have my W2K up right now but in WXP Pro, I should be able to disable Telnet by going to Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Services and Applications, Services, and scroll down to and double-click on Telnet. There's a bunch of options there. If the new program doesn't use Windows Telnet components, should be something there for you.

[saburu]

Thanks for trying to help, but this refers to some kind of telnet remote logon service or something related to C:\WIN2K\system32\tlntsvr.exe, but I tried disabling it wherever I could just to check, but telnet.exe still reappears when I delete it and I can still run telnet by Doing Start/Run... and typing in telnet in the Run Prompt. But thanks for the future problems I may solve through the Computer Mgmt Services. I am still looking for a solution. (I won't remove the windows path from the path variable so it won't find telnet under then run... example I just explained (c: ) -- Saburu

[saburu]

Hmm, after I wrote that I tried to remove the path from the path variables, by way of Ctrl Panel/System, Advanced, Environment Vars tab, and I removed %SystemRoot%\System32 from the list. I restarted and was still able to run telnet by just typing in telnet. Win2K REALLY wants you to be able to run telnet it seems.