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HyperTerminal for Vista

I learned the hard way today that Microsoft has removed HyperTerminal from Windows Vista, when I needed to connect to a Cisco router through a local COM port. The good news is that you can still get HyperTerminal from Hilgraeve, the company that Microsoft licensed the application through.

You could also look at Ponderosa, which is a nice open-source terminal application that does SSH, Telnet and COM connections. The other big feature that Ponderosa offers is a tabbed interface, which is especially nice when dealing with multiple connections. Their tabs work somewhat differently than you might be used to with Firefox or IE7, because the tabs can be placed next to one another allowing you to view both connections at the same time.

Hilgraeve HyperTerminal for Personal Use
Ponderosa

Published Dec 21 2006, 11:25 AM by Tom
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Comments

 

Dan said:

Be careful with HyperTerminal. Personal use is very much that. If you are using their product for 'Work', then you might want to go with a Open Source/Freeware solution.
January 2, 2007 3:14 PM
 

marcus said:

My personal choice of terminal emulation is Absolute Telnet. I began using it when I first went to a system sans serial port. Absolute Telnet handled the odd port number assigned to my USB-to-Serial adapter without issue via it's "Direct to COM" connections.

It also includes a telnet client (as you would expect), an SSL client (v1 and v2), a direct dialer that I will most likely never use.

With editing features that allow me to capture all of screen content that I fly through, it is a very cool tool for the way I work.  

January 17, 2007 5:13 PM
 

João Sena Ribeiro said:

Careful, it's Poderosa (without an 'n'). :D
January 24, 2007 6:48 AM
 

Drca said:

If you want (or just because you get used to it) you can still use old XP Hyper terminal. Just extract two files hypertrm.dll and hypertrm.exe. You can put them anywhere on the disk, no installation required. Of course, for that you need to have XP to extract files from.
January 30, 2007 3:38 AM
 

Tycen said:

This was a lot of help - thanks for posting it!

February 15, 2007 7:33 PM
 

ITGuy said:

Hyperterminal? Grab a copy of puTTY and you'll never look back (latest version now has terminal capabilities).
February 16, 2007 6:47 PM
 

Volator said:

Poderosa doesn't seem to support direct serial connections... Bummer
March 8, 2007 3:40 AM
 

Rod MacPherson said:

Maybe I'm just dense, but how exactly does poderosa connect to a com port I don't see that option. I see Telnet, SSH, and connect to Cygwin.
March 8, 2007 6:39 AM
 

Rod MacPherson said:

Putty now supports COM connections.
March 8, 2007 7:16 AM
 

joupin said:

So what was the purpose of removing Hyper terminal from vista ? Im going for Ponderosa thanks tom
March 22, 2007 4:09 AM
 

David Moylan said:

i second the putty vote. i already have putty as a standard application for SSH on my vista (well actually for ALL) machines. i'm using a USB to SERIAL adapter for my notebook to program up some cisco routers now and it works flawlessly. cheers, Wiz!!
March 22, 2007 2:34 PM
 

Jim said:

Poderosa requires the 'serial port connection' plugin to use the com ports. There is a new version of Hyperterminal available at Hilgraeve. It's free for personal use or about $40 for business purposes. Hilgraeve is who actually wrote Hyperterminal. They sell a professional version for about $150. SecureCRT costs about $100, I've heard it's good.
March 28, 2007 11:17 AM
 

Warthog (Karl) said:

Putty works great on VISTA. I had been using Reflections. It was full of lag time and basically useless. PUTTY was the answer to my prayers. Now, if only Outlook 2007 and the Microsoft suite worked properly I would almost be happy.
March 30, 2007 11:23 AM
 

Kyle said:

Another vote for puTTY (didn't realize COM support had been added)... I'm using Vista with USB-to-serial from IOGear to connect to a Cisco pix. It works great!
April 3, 2007 2:51 PM
 

409industries said:

The new version of Putty with serial support is awesome! i wish they would have implemented this much sooner. There is no need for any other command line program other than Putty now.
April 4, 2007 9:48 AM
 

Paul said:

I used Secure CRT to work on my Cisco Routers, its excellant.
April 4, 2007 12:53 PM
 

Tom said:

Thanks for all the feedback on this issue! I've switched back to PuTTY myself, having been a big fan of it for a long time now. I had no idea that a new version had come out, and am really happy to see that serial support is in there.

April 9, 2007 10:19 AM
 

Jerad said:

I like Putty as well; have used it for Telnet for ages. I've tried the serial capabilities; but it doesn't seem to support file transfers (X-modem, Y-modem, etc). Is it not there; or am I just overlooking it somewhere?
May 4, 2007 8:20 AM
 

Peter said:

Microsoft are complete asses for dropping HyperTerminal - what were they thinking?

June 25, 2007 3:15 AM
 

Putty now supports Serial COM connections · Mind Circus said:

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June 28, 2007 4:19 AM
 

christopher said:

ponderosa with serial port plugin loses on x64.

June 28, 2007 5:14 PM
 

Andrew Haninger said:

In terms of Hyperterminal replacements, I really like TeraTerm. The best part is that it is scriptable. The language isn't that great (I much prefer AutoIt v3) but it's better than nothing, which is what you normally get.

http://ttssh2.sourceforge.jp/

July 6, 2007 12:30 PM
 

Trent said:

If you really need hyperterm on your vista mahcine copy the hypertrm.dll from an xp machine (system32) and the application from program files\winnt and paste them in the appropriate place on your vista machine.

July 10, 2007 1:48 PM
 

Maggie said:

I use Absolute Telnet for my regular ssh client on my workstations, but keep PuTTY on my flash drive to make sure I have an ssh client on the run.  They're both great programs.  I don't generally need all the configuration options that Absolute gives you, but it's nice to know they're there if you need them.

July 24, 2007 9:41 AM
 

Ricardo F said:

My friend I have tranferred the Hypertrm.exe from an XP computer to the Vista pc from the c:\program files\windows NT\ on the XP pc.

and also transfer the htrn_jis.dll located in the same folder.

create a folder in your vista machine on the C:\

and copy these files into it.

hypertrm.exe

htrn_jis.dll

also copy and paste the file named hypertrm.dll that is located in the XP on c:\windows\system32.

to the Vista pc on the folder C:\windows\system32

the only thing misisng while creating a new connection will the the icons, I'm still looking for these icons with no luck.

let me know if you need some help my e-mail

rfvsay@gmail.com

July 30, 2007 11:54 AM
 

home security camera said:

It is wearing trying to sum the time we have used up looking up wireless home security alarm system webpages.

August 3, 2007 11:08 PM
 

Tazio said:

Hi David Moylan ,

I have been trying since months to make my Labtop work uSB to serial connection to connect to my routers.

The operating system is Vista.

I am using Hyperminal to connect to the routers.

Can you please let me know how to make this work.

Each time i open a session it works for only about 1 mins and then the session frezees.

Can you please let me know which USB to serial you are using?Which driver?and which version of Putty?

Thanking you in advance

Tazio

August 8, 2007 11:40 AM
 

Charles said:

Ricardo F said: "the only thing missing while creating a new connection will the icons, I'm still looking for these icons with no luck."

To have the icons just copy the file named hticons.dll located in the folder windows\system32

August 27, 2007 1:33 AM
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