PuTTY is a terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols. You can use putty for remote login or to control your router connected via serial devices. By default PuTTY stores the session information in the registry on Windows machine. If you have several PuTTY sessions stored in one laptop and would like to transfer those.
- SolarWinds recently released Solar-PuTTY, a software that takes the popular PuTTY tool and builds it out a bit further to add a more modern GUI and a variety of additional features. I’ll be covering this software in more detail in a piece soon, so we’ll focus on the FTP, SCP, and SFTP features of SolarPutty here.
- Oct 17, 2018 Solar-PuTTY Solar-PuTTY is a free SSH Client and Connection Manager from SolarWinds. It’s one of the only SSH clients, other than PuTTY, that doesn’t require installing the software. You just download the.exe from here and run it to launch the software.
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PuTTY is a terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols. You can use putty for remote login or to control your router connected via serial devices.
By default PuTTY stores the session information in the registry on Windows machine. If you have several PuTTY sessions stored in one laptop and would like to transfer those sessions to another laptop, you need to transfer HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareSimonTatham registry key and value as explained below:
Export the PuTTY registry key on source windows machine
Click on Start -> Run -> and enter the following regedit command in the run dialog box, which will place the PuTTY registry key and value on your desktop in the putty-registry.reg file. Please note that the name of the registry key (Simon Thatham) is the author of PuTTY.
regedit /e '%userprofile%desktopputty-registry.reg' HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareSimontatham
You can also launch the registry and interactively export the registry key value as shown below. Click on Start -> Run -> regedit -> Click File menu -> Click Export menu-item -> Enter HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareSimontatham in the “Selected branch” -> Save the putty-registry.reg to your desktop.
Import the PuTTY registry key on destination windows machine
Transfer the putty-registry.reg to the destination Windows machine. Right click on the .reg file and select Merge as shown below. This will display a confirmation message: Are you sure you want to add the information in putty-registry.reg to registry?. Ati radeon hd 5770 mac pro driver for mac. Click on ‘Yes’ to accept this message.
Waves mercury v9 windows torrent. Launch the putty to verify the new sessions are transferred successfully. The registry key merge will not delete the previous PuTTY sessions. Instead, it will merge the entries to the existing PuTTY sessions on the destination windows machine.
You can also import the registry key and value interactively: Click on Start -> Run -> regedit -> Click File menu -> Click Import menu-item ->select the putty-registry.reg -> click on Import, to import the PuTTY sessions to the destination windows machine.
Turbocharge PuTTY with 12 Powerful Add-Ons explains about some modified versions of the PuTTY that stores the session information in a file instead of Windows registry.
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