Appendix 7: HyperTerminal
- The ‘New Connections Properties’ window opens and select the COM
Port you are connected to: - If you don’t know what Com Port you are connected to:
- Your computer’s manual will tell which COM Port you are using. But
since you’ve lost your manual... - Click the start button
- Click the settings button
- Click the control panel button
- (If you are using XP, hunt around, it’s all there somewhere)
- In the control panel, click the System button
- Depending on your OS, hunt for the Hardware panel, and then click
the Device Manager button (Why does Microsoft have to do this
differently on every OS?) - In the Device Manager, expand the Ports(COM & LPT)
- If fortune smiles, you’ll only have one COM Port and it will be
COM1. - If you have multiple COM Ports that aren’t being used, then go find
that darn manual! Or look at you connections on the back of your PC
and hope one of them is labeled, or just plug it in an guess which COM
Port it is connected to. If you guess wrong, just try the next one
COM1, COM2, COM3... until it works, and next time you buy a PC,
put the manual somewhere that you can find it.
- Your computer’s manual will tell which COM Port you are using. But