A while back we wrote about 12 powerful PuTTY software add-ons and explained how PuTTY connection manager can help you to organize PuTTY SSH sessions in tabs. In this article, let us review 10 awesome native PuTTY tips and tricks that you might have not explored earlier. If you have not used PuTTY earlier and you have heard only about Silly Putty and Mighty Putty and not the PuTTY software, you may want to download PuTTY software from the official PuTTY download page here before exploring these PuTTY tricks. When you are swapping an old computer with a new computer, you may end-up transferring all PuTTY sessions to new computer. This will display following warning message. This is a better process to delete all saved PuTTY sessions from Windows registry instead of deleting one-by-one from the PuTTY session list. Sometimes it would be good if font size decrease when you reduce the PuTTY window size or font size increase when you increase the PuTTY window size. For start, when you are running Options top command, if you try to resize the window, the output will get cut-off in the PuTTY as shown below. After the above change, start the PuTTY SSH session and login again. Start the Unix top command and try to resize the window. When you reduce the window size, the font size will become smaller and adjust the top command output automatically to fit in the small size screen as shown below. You can change this to any user-friendly text. After this change, make sure to save the session. Load this saved PuTTY SSH session and login again to the server, which will display the new updated window title as shown below. When you are logged-in to start PuTTY SSH session, right mouse-click on the PuTTY window title, which will display PuTTY menu. Sometimes when you are running a monitoring session for example, unix top commandyou may want the PuTTY client window to stay options top all the times. After this change, login to the PuTTY FTP or SSH or telnet session. This particular session will always stay on top irrespective of any other application you open in the windows. By default when you launch any PuTTY terminal session, it runs in the normal window size. Sometimes you start prefer it to start in a maximized mode. Follow the steps mentioned below. PuTTY stores all the session information in Windows registry. On the source machine, export the PuTTY session registry information as shown below. On the destination machine, import the PuTTY SSH session registry, by right mouse-click on the putty-registry. This will transfer all the PuTTY session information from one windows system to another. PuTTYPuTTY ExpertPuTTY For Windows VistaPuTTY For Windows XPPuTTY HacksPuTTY User Interface. During login, Window Title is showing as defined but not after login It is showing merely same as PS1. Any update or resolution? I have been using putty since 1 year but never had time to check its features and options. You tips are really helpful to everyone who uses Putty in his daily life. I I need to run SSH tunnels, I launch the Putty session with my options profile. I can embed that in a script to launch Putty, create the SSH tunnels and then launch my applications. Any idea other than using something nasty like KillWin or PSKILL? How do I fix it? To be more clear about my question ,if my server name is salihdb I have read the help files and have followed the recommendations but does options correct this problem anybody have any suggestions. Thanks for the help. Under you can configure it under the interface properties or as a local policy object. If after installing Putty Connection Manager, you have the problem where when you open a single or multiple sessions and they open under seperate windows outside of Putty Connection manager, do the following to correct the issue. This corrected the issue for me and I can now open a single session or multiple sessions inside the PuTTY Connection Manager window. That way I can save all the work done for future reference. Trick 10 — did not work for me until I renamed my stored session. Had started the name with a capital letter. Unable to load external plugin library C: I am having issues with loggin on to putty. Options used to be able to double click on the save session and it would load fine but now putty does not work. Better and faster than a shortcut. Thanks for the tips I picked up a couple I did not know. I have putty question. A couple of times I accidentally copied a large block of options in putty like from the cursor to the end of the window without scrolling the text with the mouse button pushed down takes forever. I am trying to re-create what I did because I frequently have a lot of text to copy. I allow a lot of lines in my buffer so I am sure that is it. Anyway anyone know how to copy without dong a mouse-click scroll through every line? The scrolling takes forever and half the time my finger accidentally comes off the mouse and I have to start over gain. Excactly what I wanted. How to arrange sort Putty sessions? I have more options 30 routers in one folder, named from R1 to R But putty sorts them as it wish, like R1 next R10, R11 …R2, R20, R21… how can i sort this list if I wish, R1,R2,R3… Is it possible?? Do you know a way how I can solve it? I use many many server and putty took minutes to open the folder of the logfiles. You could create and start a vb script instead putty directly to check and create folders before starting putty by script. With vbs you can read ini. I have windows 7 on my system, initially putty Options used to work fine for me. The password is getting displayed at the user name tab and then prompting to enter password!!! You get to decide how you want them to interact. Another great start with PuTTy is change the default SSH session to send a NOOP command to keep the ssh session open. Connect to an ssh server, go to Change Settings, and under Connection, enter 60 for for the Seconds between keepalives. Click Apply and then go to Sessions and save it as the Default Session. Any other previously created ssh sessions will not have this parameter saved, only new putty. I mainly use PuTTy to edit server files. Is there a way that the tab could display the File Name instead? You better putty the putty registry key a lot using this procedure: Or, backup using a fixed path like: Hearken to the voice of experience. Thank you start the tip on fonts. Now I have big friendly fonts on my PuTTY! Regarding setting title of putty window, i tried it. However, it does not seem fully working when I open the window, it shows the title that i set. Hi I need to increase the length of line limit in putty. Copy large sections of text to notepad using a scroll mouse. This is a little tricky so you have to try it a couple of times. You click and hold the scroll weel putty the start of the section you want to copy. Roll the scroll weel to select text up or down the page you may also have to move the mouse around to select the desired text. Hi, I need a list of all users who have accessed a Net App server within the last 6 months and their associated passwords or a hash dump start their passwords. The server is accessible exclusively through Putty. Any idea on how to do this? Does Putty even have this functionality? I changed from 24 to 25 ROws and now the F keys are available when I PuTTY into my Avaya Call Manager. I am using MTPuTTY Multi-Tabbed PuTTYso i want to know how can we enable the start and end key of the keyboard here. Just a suggestion for your post. Perhaps you could edit it to include a small note for Windows10 users. When I tried it, the name of the session to be loaded should be with double quotes like so: It is only working for the current session alone. This is the work around i did. I have the following alias defined in my. Arun, Save the changed settings into default session and it will be used as it is for any further session you create. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Regular Expressions Cookbook By Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan. How To Launch Applications Automatically During Startup. All rights reserved Terms of Service. Partial output truncated during PuTTY window resize. PuTTY Change the font size automatically. Unix top command output not truncated. Custom Window Title for PuTTY Session. PuTTY Session showing user defined custom window title. PuTTY Event Log Display. Enable Rich Text Paste to Clipboard in PuTTY. Rich Text copied from PuTTY to MS-Word with formatting. PuTTY Window Behavior - Always on Top. Press Alt-Enter for PuTTY Full Screen. Open PuTTY in Maximum Window Size. Transfer Windows PuTTY Registry to another computer. Launch PuTTY session with one click from command line. Thanks for the great tips. Setting the hostname as window title: Tapas Mallick July 28,1: Kiran July 28, Ramesh Natarajan August 2,5: Sasikala, Kiran, Thanks for your comment. Huy April 15, I like trick 5, trick 8, trick SSH Guy June 17,5: Anonymous July 5,3: September 8,8: Is there any way to make a session or putty shortcut open in fullscreen by default? Indie February 25,9: Salih March 26,7: Hi Ramesh, Very Helpful article about PuTTy I have a question. How can i set default domain name in PuTTy. Thanks in Advance, Salih KM. BDH March 29, Indie March 30, start, 2: BDH April 5, VIJAY April 7, Zakaria Shaikh May 26, Kenneth October 13,7: Had started the name with a capital letter Kind regards. Ash October 30,6: Alexander Ewering November 27,8: Alix January 5,8: Waseem February 16, Elaine June 15, SearayCA July 3,3: Uldis August 8,4: Hello Uldis, the only way i know is to save as R01, R02. Praveen August 30,8: I want to create the session logs into separate folders, but this way is not working: Hello hejho, it seems that putty is unable to create folders. Kiran September 17, Thorarinn January 8,4: Ron January 9,putty Hi Kiran, You can copy the contents of a file to the clipboard by doing the following: Anonymous January 30, Hi, thanks for the good article. How to change the colour of background? Puttycm user February 22, putty, Dave March 4,2: When you set the session name, this is overwritten by user host on login. KC April 4,1: Neha Verma May 14,6: Justin Goldberg August 27,5: Sal September 2,5: I have a question about putty on win 7. SukieC November 7,3: M November 22,4: SandPond January 18,4: SomeGuy February 8,2: Ghufran February 13,options Sivaraj April 1,1: Thanks in advance Sivaraj. Jeff April 29,8: PuttyGuru July 22, Anon September 4,1: Has anyone ever used PuTTy for anything other then DDoSsing??? Johnathan September 14, Anonymous October 15, Did i do any mistake or any thing to be done apart from this? Tim van de Leur May 13,6: Hi there, Just a suggestion for your post. This is the work around i did 1 loaded the particular server. Can most putty setting be set on the command line? Specifically I want to set start a printer. Peeyush February 1, Regular Expressions Cookbook By Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan Previous post: How To Record and Play Mommy, I found it! About The Geek Stuff My name is Ramesh Natarajan. I will be posting instruction guides, how-to, troubleshooting tips and tricks on Linux, database, hardware, security and web. 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