If you’ve recently upgraded to Windows 7 and are wondering what happened to HyperTerminal, you’re not alone! HyperTerminal was a sweet little program that let you connect to other computers, Telnet sites, host computers, BBSs, etc using your modem or Ethernet connection. In Windows 7 and Vista, you will no longer find the HyperTer minal program. If you need HyperTerminal to control serial devices, there is a way to get it back! Also, there are several new alternatives to HyperTerminal that are probably better for secure shell access and troubleshooting modems. Firstly, if you only need remote shell access, you can use the new Windows Remote Shell command line option in Windows 7 and Vista. To learn more about using WRS, simply open a command prompt and type in winrs /?. It’s basically a SSH replacement that allows remote command line access over an encrypted connection. It also uses the SOAP protocol. Phone and Modem Options If you were using HyperTerminal to troubleshoot modems, you can now use Phone and Modem Options to do this. Go to Control Panel, click on Hardware and Sounds and then click on Phone and Modem Options. All you have to do is provide information about the Country/Region, Area Code, Carrier Code, and Outside Dial Number to access the dialog box. Once you do that, you can troubleshoot your modem in Windows 7 or Vista. HyperTerminal Alternatives If you don’t want to use all these alternative methods, you can still use alternative programs for HyperTerminal. Here are some of my favorites. HyperTerminal Private Edition – This is a commercial terminal emulation program that you can use to communicate with serial COM ports, dial-up modems, and TCP/IP networks. TeraTerm – TeraTerm is an open-source terminal emulator and SSH module that supports IPv6, SSH1, SSH2, Telnet, serial ports, and file transfer protocols (XMODEM, Kermit, ZMODEM, B-PLUS, etc). Putty – Another free Telnet and SSH implementation for Windows. It also is an xterm terminal emulator. This is probably my favorite alternative to HyperTerminal. Original XP HyperTerminal If you just can’t live without the original HyperTerminal in Windows XP, you can actually extract two files from your XP installation and copy them over to Windows 7 or Vista. The two files you will need are hypertrm.dll and hypertrm.exe. Simply copy those files into any directory on your machine and it will work. You should be able to find hypertrm.exe in C:\\Program Files\\Windows NT and hypertrm.dll in C:\\Windows\\System32. If you have the Windows XP CD, you should be able to find both of these files in the i386 directory on the CD. So that’s about it! Even though HyperTerminal is no longer in Windows 7, it’s really not needed since you have a lot of great alternatives like Putty, etc. If you want it simply because you’ve been using it for a long time, either download the Private Edition or copy the files from XP. Enjoy ! December 31st, 2009 by Aseem Kishore File in: Windows 7 There are 35 comments, care to add yours? Hi Team , I just copied all the .dll and .exe. It is working with my Windows 7. Normally when I was using XP, I used to access hyperterminal by typing 'hypertrm' in 'run' ,but in WINDOWS 7 I need to go to the folder where I kept Hyperterminal. Is There any work around for this…? Ur help would be appreciated. Mahesh M TEAM -T ogether E verybody can A chieve M ore Thanks so much for the free advice. It's hard to find these days ! However, my only connection option when loaded onto Windows 7 was TCP/IP. I have an adaptor which I had hoped would allow me to use a USB port as a Com port. Will this not be available because of Win7?
I found a code that allows you to remove old associations to COM Ports. You can then plug your adapter in and then associate it with the COM Port you need.
I have spent many hours trying to get the trial of GPSGate V2.6.0.340 to make a virtual serial port on 2 different computers, both with Win 7 Ultimate x64.
Feb 03, 2010 Hello Jeff, The solution to installing the USB to Serial converter on Windows 7 is in the article above. The driver is also available via link in the.
HyperTerminal Alternatives for Windows 7
If you ve recently upgraded to Windows 7 and are wondering what happened to HyperTerminal, you re not alone. HyperTerminal was a sweet little program that let.
One thing that I found to work. The above did not work for me as the ports were In Use but no device was listed. I had the lower 4 com ports In Use.
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I work with a device that connects through COM port via Bluetooth. Everytime I remove and reconnect the device, a new COM port gets created. The first time.