Most of you must be aware that Windows Vista lacks the Hyper Terminal even in the Ultimate Edition! also. I was really frustrated with a laptop with no COM port and Windows Vista that doesn’t have the Terminal Software. I was sure that there must be third-party software out there which will do the job, but will I really give up the trusty Terminal Services Client that I was so much used to?
I copied Hyper Terminal Software from a Windows XP SP2 machine, its easy to find via the Open Target Location option of the short-cut properties window. However when tried to start the copied program, the system complained about a missing hypertrm.dll file, which was again easy to find from the System32 folder of the XP system and copied it over to the System32 folder of the
And then since my laptop did not have a built-in COM port, I used a USB to DB9 cable which used to self-install drivers like ‘magic’ in XP. Since my USB to DB9 cable didn’t have any logo, trademark,etc it was a little difficult to find a good working driver, however I stumbled upon a fortune cookie and soon I was configuring my Router!
Here is the Hyper Terminal + DLL file zipped.
And here are the USB to DB9 drivers for
In case you need it here is the link which I downloaded the drivers, I think it might be handy since its got various other versions of the driver for various platforms.
