Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "TFTP Client" It was disabled. She enabled it with:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "TFTP Client" One reboot later (she used the time to grab coffee), her laptop could now talk TFTP. Here’s where many fail. The Windows TFTP client can only download from or upload to a server. It cannot host files by itself. tftp on windows
She remembered: TFTP isn't fancy. No authentication, no directory listing. But it's lightweight and perfect for firmware pushes. Windows doesn’t enable TFTP by default, but it has a built-in client. She opened PowerShell as Administrator and ran: tftp on windows