Have you tried connecting directly to the serial port and issuing easycomm commands directly ?
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Make sure that no other program (rotctld or other) is using the serial port, windows does not allow more than one program to connect at a time.
I use PuTTY for most of my terminal stuff, serial, telnet, ssh etc.