A: Windows XP had an application called 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. Related: 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: temp This is the output that results: Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 6.1.7600.16385 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Adding d: temp hypertrm.chm to Extraction Queue Expanding Files.
Expanding Files Complete. Adding d: temp hypertrm.dll to Extraction Queue Expanding Files. Expanding Files Complete. Adding d: temp hypertrm.exe to Extraction Queue Expanding Files.
Expanding Files Complete. Adding d: temp hypertrm.hlp to Extraction Queue Expanding Files. Expanding Files Complete.
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