2012-08-24

No Hyper Terminal for you Windows 7 - Putty has Serial too!

Windows 7 does not come with the legacy Hyper Terminal application.  If you spend any time configuring or trouble-shooting Cisco routers, (among many other things you might use a serial port for, assuming you still have one), then this is a modest inconvenience.  Solution: one of the best tools of all time, our friend putty.

Honestly I've used this tool for over a decade and never notice the Serial option.  Probably because I never needed it because I had Hyper Terminal.  Why was I wasting my time, putty is so much better.



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