No HyperTerminal in Vista, use Putty instead

I found out today that HyperTerminal is no longer included in Windows Vista when I wanted to connect to the console port of a switch. You can still get HyperTerminal Personal Edition from Hilgraeve, the company Microsoft licensed the software from. The better alternative is Putty. With Putty you can also have Raw, Telnet, Rlogin, and SSH sessions in addition to Serial. You can download Putty from here.