Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Change the default telnet client in Windows

I just keep on forgetting what to change to get this working. As I don't want to search everytime I'm just posting a shameless copy from Rene's ICT Notepad.

Enable handling of telnet://hostname:port/ URLs on the command line. With this feature, you can now set PuTTY as the default handler for Telnet URLs

If you run the Registry Editor (Start->Run->regedit.exe) and set the value in:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\telnet\shell\open\command to be: "\path\to\putty.exe %1"
(with the full pathname of your PuTTY executable), you should find that clicking on telnet links in your web browser now runs PuTTY.

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