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  • Advanced Serial Port Terminal allows you to open as many serial ports as you like (including virtual serial ports); dynamically change serial port settings without necessity to close and reopen.
  • If your serial port is virtual created by some driver through USB connection, use this example to get details about these serial ports. Wmic path CIMLogicalDevice where 'Description like 'USB Serial%' get /value.
  • Cmder is a well-known portable terminal emulator for Windows 10 that was built from the “pure frustration” caused by the lack of a good alternative in Windows. It’s built on top of another well-known console emulator, ConEmu, and enhanced with Clink. Clink extends the power of ConEmu, adding shell features like bash-style completion.
  • If your system does not have any serial port, you can still use a USB-to-Serial adapter  When you buy a USB-to-Serial port adapter you will get a driver for it as well. This driver makes a virtual serial port in your system. In Windows, serial port named as COM port. If you want to use Hyper terminal than you have to download this file.
  • For serial ports first click Serial in the radio buttons. Then type in the Serial name in Serial line (e.g. COM5) and finally, set the Speed to be whatever speed you like Then click Open to open the port.
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Serial COM Port Terminal Multi-Threaded TTY (MTTTY) is an easy to use serial terminal utility that you can use to communicate with the RS-232 serial ports on your device or development kit. It is multi-threaded in that you can run multiple instances of MTTTY for each serial port. To set up a serial terminal connection in HyperTerminal, First enter a name for your connection, click OK. Select your COM port under “connect using”. Click Configure and change the port settings to match the settings required by the device you are connecting to. Click OK again, and the program will attempt to connect.

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How would I go about viewing a list of COM ports in use without the use of Device Manager?

I don't want to install any software either. Is there a possible way to do this through the command line?

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In the command prompt use

Free video editing software for mac yosemite. mode

Used without parameters, mode displays all the controllable attributes of the CON (console) and the available COM devices (and LPT as well).

Accepts /? switch for basic help:

mode /?

JosefZJosefZ
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In the command prompt use:

OR

In PowerShell:

OR

Hope this helps.

vembutechvembutech
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I know the question has been answered, but this is another method.

In command prompt, use:
chgport
in windows Vista and up. Lists your ports and which device they are.

Thomas LarsenThomas Larsen

Using mode most of the time I don't see the devices that are not connected.

I prefer to use this solution with Python:

So I can see anything plugged in even if the connection is closed.

serial.tools.list_ports is from package pyserial.

Windows Serial Port Terminal Linux Mint

G MG M

wmic https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/wmisdk/wmic is a windows command line utility to get system information.

If your serial port is virtual created by some driver through USB connection, use this example to get details about these serial ports.

GLamprosGLampros

You can also run the following from cmd.exe prompt

And here is an open source utility to do the same and more:https://todbot.com/blog/2012/03/02/listcomports-windows-command-line-tool-for-usb-to-serial/

lithiumheadlithiumhead

The snippet below lists serial ports into the $PORTS variable

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PORTS=/c/Windows/System32/mode.com grep Status.*COM awk '{ print $4 }' sed s/://

echo -n 'Programming (echoing) ports: 'for aa in $PORTS; do echo -n $aadoneecho '

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