[Someone1234]

I have Windows 7 Home Premium on my Mac via Parallels, and just I just typed in "ftp" into cmd and it came straight up.

The only packages I have installed are "Media Features" ".Net Framework 3.5.1" "Print and Document Services" "Windows Gadget Platform" "Windows Search" and XPS Services/Viewer. All of which are default features.

Which package are you even suggesting contains the ftp.exe client? Because I don't even see one. Also why would anyone go to the trouble of putting a 47 Kb binary inside of a feature package? It makes absolutely no sense at all.

[kuschku]

They used to put all that stuff – ftp, network utilities, etc in one package.

Granted, I haven’t used Windows in 4 years, but I remember fighting with getting ftp on Windows without admin.

[Someone1234]

Are you sure you aren't mis-remembering and were installing the Unix Services for Windows, to utilise Linux-like command line utilities?

As the person said above, ftp.exe has been in Windows since the MS Dos days, and is a core utility. I've never seen it not been available on any version in any situation.

Now an FTP server definitely needs to be installed. Always has. But we're talking about the ftp.exe client.

[jlgaddis]

ftp.exe should be there, but telnet.exe is no longer installed by default. One must go to "Add/Remove Features" (or similar) and enable it first. Maybe that's what he's confusing it with.

[pix64]

Windows no longer installs telnet.exe by default anymore