Windows Vista – What happened to HyperTerminal?
Aug 03
HyperTerminal is no longer part of Windows Vista. However you can copy the relevant hyper terminal files from Windows XP to your Windows Vista.
Required.
- Windows XP system
- USB flash drive
Here’s the trick. (Or you can download from here)
- Go to C:\Program Files\Windows NT\
- Copy hypertrm.exe and htrn_jis.dll to your USB flash drive
- Go to C:\Windows\System32\
- Copy hticons.dll and hypertrm.dll to your USB flash drive
- Copy the above files to a folder in your vista machine and double click on hypertrm.exe to launch the Hyper Terminal program.
What each file does.
- hypertrm.exe – Application
- hypertrm.dll – Is a required dll file for hypertrm to run
- hticons.dll – Is the icons
- htrn_jis.dll – I can’t figure out what is this use for. Anyone can help me with this?
Hi,
This is a great fix!
Thanks again,
Sunny
What each file does.
* hypertrm.exe – Application
* hypertrm.dll – Is a required dll file for hypertrm to run
* hticons.dll – Is the icons
* htrn_jis.dll – internal Decoding Library(RAW) for Protocols
Thanks so much for the help. Im only have COM3 when before I used COM1. Why is this??
Great info!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the post. I forgot about this Vista omission until I recently moved a computer from XP to Windows 7 and have same problem. Someone else had a similar post for the missing Hyperterminal, but had a typo in the hticons.dll file. (missing the “i”).
To get double click on an ht icon shortcut to your connection to work,
1. Open RegEdit and navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\hypertrm.exe\shell\open\command
(or just search for hyperterm.exe).
2. Double click the Default value and remove all the quote marks.
3. Click OK and close RegEdit.