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Q: Where is HyperTerminal in Windows 7?
HyperTerminal is no longer provided in Windows 7, but we have an alternative.
John Savill
March 1, 2012
1 Min Read
A: Windows XP had an application called HyperTerminal that was great for communicating with COM ports and performing Telnet operations. It’s no longer provided in Windows 7.
A great alternative I use is PuTTY, which is a free program. They also make PuTTY on Windows Mobile.
Related: Using HyperTerminal as your Telnet interface
If you really want the original XP HyperTerminal, do the following:
Open the Windows XP media, navigate to the I386 folder, and copy the 4 HYPERTRM.* files (.CH_, .DL_, .EX_ and .HL_) to a local folder
Open a command prompt at the folder where you copied the four files.
Expand them with the EXPAND command:
D:Temp>expand -R hyper*.* d:tempThis is the output that results:
Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 6.1.7600.16385
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Adding d:temphypertrm.chm to Extraction Queue
Expanding Files ....
Expanding Files Complete ...
Adding d:temphypertrm.dll to Extraction Queue
Expanding Files ....
Expanding Files Complete ...
Adding d:temphypertrm.exe to Extraction Queue
Expanding Files ....
Expanding Files Complete ...
Adding d:temphypertrm.hlp to Extraction Queue
Expanding Files ....
Expanding Files Complete ...
XP HyperTrm.exe is now on your Windows 7 machine.
Learn more: How can I prevent an unattended installation from installing the HyperTerminal feature?
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