Thursday, December 27, 2007

Copying PuTTY Saved Sessions

PuTTY stores Saved Session information in the following location of the registry: HKCU\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions

Note: Simon Tatham is the author of PuTTY, this is not a user specific reg key.


To copy Saved Sessions from one machine to another, you must export the keys from the registry of the machine were the Saved Sessions were created and import them into the registry of the new machine.


To export the registry keys:
  1. Open regedit
  2. Explore to HKCU\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions
  3. Click File | Export
  4. Select the location to save the export file
  5. Name the file and click the Save button

To import the registry keys:

  1. Install PuTTY
  2. Copy the .reg file to the new machine
  3. Double click the .reg file to import the keys

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