PUTTY: EXTREME MAKEOVER USING PUTTY CONNECTION MANAGER

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTY Logo" class="alignright alignnone size-full wp-image-162" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/images/putty-connection-manager.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 1.666em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Logo" />This article is part of the on-going Software For Geeks series.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />PuTTY Connection Manager was mentioned in the 12 PuTTY add-ons that we discussed a while back. One of the major missing features in PuTTY is the ability to display multiple sessions in Tabs.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />PuTTY CM displays multiple PuTTY sessions in Tabs. In this article, let us review in detail the 5 powerful features of the PuTTY Connection Manager that will make PuTTY more enjoyable.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span id="more-418" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div class="alert" style="background-color: #ffffa0; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 151); color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.571em 0.786em; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Download PuttyCM</strong>: PuttyCM website seems to be down for some time now. Until that site comes backup, you can download puttycm.exe that I’ve been using.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Download the PuTTY Connection Manager. PuTTY CM is written in C#. You need .NET 2.0. When you install PuTTY CM for the first time, you need to specify the location of the PuTTY executable.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Feature 1: Display Multiple PuTTY Sessions in Tab</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">If the PuTTY Connection Manager opens the original PuTTY in a separate window, instead of opening as a TAB, please go to Tools -> Options -> Select the check-box “Enable additional timing for PuTTY capture (ms)” -> set the value to 500 ms. This will open the PuTTY window inside the TAB as shown below.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Tabs for PuTTY" class="size-full wp-image-419 aligncenter" height="363" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/puttycm1.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="Tabs for PuTTY" width="500" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig</strong>: PuTTY sessions in Tabs</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Feature 2: Dockable Windows for PuTTY Sessions</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Apart from displaying multiple PuTTY sessions in Tabs, PuTTY CM can also show different PuTTY sessions in panels.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In the example below, to move the qa-box PuTTY session to the bottom panel, left-click on the qa-box tab and hold the mouse until it displays the panel symbol (which will be like a Plus symbol) in the middle of the screen. Now move the mouse to the bottom of the plus, which will high-light the bottom portion of the screen indicating that the qa-box session will be moved to the bottom panel.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTY Dockable Windows" class="size-full wp-image-420 aligncenter" height="431" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/puttycm2.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Dockable Windows" width="500" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig:</strong> Select the Panel to dock a PuTTY session</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Now, release the mouse, which will move the qa-box to the bottom panel as shown below.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Multiple PuTTY Sessions in Panels" class="size-full wp-image-421 aligncenter" height="418" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/puttycm3.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="Multiple PuTTY Sessions in Panels" width="500" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig:</strong> Selected PuTTY session docked in proper panel</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Using the similar technique you can move all the PuTTY sessions to different panels as shown below.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTY Sessions in four panels" class="size-full wp-image-422 aligncenter" height="394" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/puttycm4.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Sessions in four panels" width="500" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig:</strong> Multiple PuTTY Sessions docked appropriately</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Feature 3: Encrypted PuTTY Configuration Database</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">By default, PuTTY session informations are stored in the windows registry, which are not encrypted. If you want to keep the session information (ip-address, session name etc.,) encrypted, you can use the database encryption feature available in the PuTTY CM<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code></div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Download the AES encryption library (pcmcrypt.dll) from PuTTY CM website.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Place this file in the PuTTY CM program folder. C:\Program Files\PuTTY Connection Manager</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Restart the PuTTY CM</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Go to Tools menu -> Options -> Database -> under the Encryption section, the available algorithms should display “AES Rinjdael Managed” as shown below, indicating that the encryption library is successfully installed.</li> </ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Enable PuTTY Encryption" class="size-full wp-image-423 aligncenter" height="142" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/puttycm5.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="Enable PuTTY Encryption" width="396" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig:</strong> Enable Encryption</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Click on File -> New -> Database and enter the appropriate information as shown below to create a secure PuTTY session database. Follow the best practices to create a strong password while choosing the passphrase for the secure database.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code></div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Database Name: putty-secure-sessions</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Click on Enable database encryption check-box</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Select “AES Rinjdael Managed 256 bits”</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Enter a strong passphrase for the database.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Click on ‘Create database’ to create the database as shown below.</li> </ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Create Encrypted PuTTY Database" class="size-full wp-image-424 aligncenter" height="262" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/puttycm6.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="Create Encrypted PuTTY Database" width="472" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig</strong>: Create Encrypted PuTTY session database</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code></div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Click on File menu -> save database to save the database to a physical file.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now the ‘putty-secure-sessions’ database will be displayed under the Connection manager as shown below</li> </ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTY Connection Manager Displaying Encrypted Database" class="size-full wp-image-425 aligncenter" height="180" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/puttycm7.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Connection Manager Displaying Encrypted Database" width="256" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig:</strong> PuTTY Connection Manager displaying Encrypted Session database</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code></div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Right mouse-click on the ‘putty-secure-sessions’ database name -> Click on New -> Click on Connection, to create a new secure PuTTY session.</li> </ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Feature 4: Automatic PuTTY Session Login</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Once you’ve created a secure PuTTY session as mentioned above, you can setup automatic login. i.e you can save the uid/pwd for the individual PuTTY session in the secure database. i.e When you double-click on a particular secure PuTTY session, it will login automatically.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">From the putty-secure-sessions database, select a particular PuTTY session, right mouse-click and select Configuration, click on the ‘Enable Macro’ check-box as shown below.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Automatic Login for PuTTY Session" class="size-full wp-image-429 aligncenter" height="159" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/puttycm8-1.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="Automatic Login for PuTTY Session" width="258" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig:</strong> Enable Login Macro For a PuTTY Session</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />From the same PuTTY session configuration window, click on the ‘Login Macro’ from the left-side menu and enter the uid/pwd as shown below.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTY Automatic Connection Credentials" class="size-full wp-image-430 aligncenter" height="232" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/puttycm9-1.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Automatic Connection Credentials" width="348" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig:</strong> Automatic Login Setup for a PuTTY Session</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Now, when you double-click on that particular PuTTY session, it will do the login automatically using the credentials you’ve provided.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Feature 5: PuTTY Session Post-Login Commands</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">You can also setup post-login command, which will get executed automatically after you login.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The setup of post-login commands is done under the same ‘Login macro’ screen under the ‘Post-login command’ section. Click on ‘Enable post-login commands’ check-box and you can set a total of 5 post login commands as shown below.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTY Session - Execute commands after login" class="size-full wp-image-428 aligncenter" height="223" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/puttycm10.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Session - Execute commands after login" width="346" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig:</strong> Execute Commands automatically after login</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Apart from the above 5 powerful features, PuTTY Connection Manager have the following features:</div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ability to select multiple themes</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Import and Export PuTTY sessions</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY CM also comes as standalone executable that can be launched directly from an USB thumb drive.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Did I mention that PuTTY Connection Manager is a <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">freeware</strong> ?</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Finally, make sure to read 10 Awesome PuTTY Tips and Tricks You Probably Didn’t Know</li> </ul></div>

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HOW TO CONVERT YOUR FIREFOX WEB BROWSER INTO A KEYLOGGER

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Today, I am going to tell you how to convert your Mozilla Firefox  into an undetectable keylogger. This keylogger will be used to store all the usernames and passwords that will be entered by the user.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="convert firefox into a keylogger" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-98" height="236" src="http://pctipstrickshacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/convert-firefox-into-a-keylogger.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="convert firefox into a keylogger" width="331" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The keylogger will work on the basis of a script that disables the Firefox browser to ask the user to save his password whenever he logins to a website. Thereby, allowing the Firefox to store his username and password combination automatically without prompting the user. Just follow these steps to convert your firefox into a keylogger :</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">1. First and foremost, download the script from <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://linkc.at/ObFmse" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2266aa; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a></strong>.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">2. If you are a Windows user, then navigate to <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/Components</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">and if you are using MAC, then navigate to <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Applications -> Right Click Firefox -> Show Package Contents -> Contents/MacOS/Components</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">3. In the downloaded rar file, you will find a script named as <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nsLoginManagerPrompter.js</strong>, simply extract and then copy and paste the file in the folder that is applicable to you.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Your Firefox keylogger is now ready and whenever anyone enters his username and password on any site, his details would be saved automatically which can be easily retrieved using <a href="http://linkc.at/ORnkjB" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2266aa; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fire Password viewer</strong></a>.</div></div>

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TURBOCHARGE PUTTY WITH 12 POWERFUL ADD-ONS – SOFTWARE FOR GEEKS

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTY Logo" border="0" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/putty.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">This article is part of on-going Software For Geeks series. PuTTY is hands-down the best, free, and lightweight SSH client for Windows. I have provided list of 12 powerful PuTTY add-ons with screenshots, that will solve few shortcomings of the <a href="http://linkc.at/vCaKrI" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">original PuTTY</a>.  Play around with these add-ons and choose the one that suites your need.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span id="more-150" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. PuTTY Connection Manager</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY CM gives a nice feature to arrange several PuTTY sessions in tabs . While starting PuTTYCM for the first time, you should specify the location of the original PuTTY. This requires .NET 2.0 to be installed on the windows system. Following screen-shot displays three putty sessions in tabs within the same window.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Note: If the PuTTY Connection Manager opens the original PuTTY in a separate window, instead of opening as a TAB, please go to <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tools -> Options -> Select the check-box “Enable additional timing for PuTTY capture (ms)” -> set the value to 300 ms</em>. This will open the PuTTY window inside the TAB as shown below.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Note:</strong> Refer to the PuTTY Connection Manager Tutorial for more details on the PuTTY CM features.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </code></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTY Connection Manager - Multiple Tab" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-153" height="384" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/2-puttycm.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Connection Manager - Multiple Tab" width="500" /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig – PuTTY Connection Manager with multiple Tabs</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. <a href="http://linkc.at/kfudIq" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuTTYcyg</a></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Cygwin users will absolutely love <a href="http://linkc.at/zAJMC4" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuTTYcyg</a>. This lets you use PuTTY as a local cygwin terminal. If you use cygwin on your windows, I’m sure you’ll hate the default MS-DOS looking cygwin window. Using PuTTYcyg, you can run cygwin inside PuTTY. I love this add-on and use it for my cygwin on Windows.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">On PuTTYcyg, click on <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cygterm radio button</em> in the <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Connection type</em>. Enter – (hyphen) in the “<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Command (use – for login shell</em>“, to connect to the cygwin on the windows laptop using PuTTY as shown below.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTYcyg Cygterm radio-button" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-155" height="283" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/1-puttycyg.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTYcyg Cygterm radio-button" width="292" /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig – PuTTYcyg with Cygterm option</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. <a href="http://linkc.at/Ihl0Mt" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuTTYtray</a></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Using <a href="http://linkc.at/Ihl0Mt" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuTTYtray</a>, you can minimize the PuTTY window to the system tray on windows. By default, original PuTTY stores the session information in the registry. This is painful, when you want to transfer PuTTY sessions from one laptop to another. In PuTTYtray, there is an additional radio button “<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sessions from file</em>” as shown below, that will let you store session information in a file.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTYtray" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-152" height="184" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/1-putty-tray.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTYtray" width="295" /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig – PuTTYtray with “Session from file” option</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. <a href="http://linkc.at/91bNbe" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuttyTabs</a></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://linkc.at/tyip0E" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #990000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuttyTabs</a> provides a floating bar, that will display the open PuTTY sessions in TABs. Clicking on one of the tabs will bring the respective PuTTY session to the foreground. While starting PuTTYTabs for the first time, you should specify location of the original PuTTY. It reads the windows registry to get all the available PuTTY sessions. This also requires .NET 2.0 to be installed on the windows system. Following screen-shot displays three putty sessions arranged in tab.</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTYTabs Screenshot" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-154" height="145" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/3-putty-tabs.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTYTabs Screenshot" width="382" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig – PuTTYTabs with multiple Tabs</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. <a href="http://linkc.at/iJr7e4" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; font-size: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Quest PuTTY</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://linkc.at/iJr7e4" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Quest Software</a> modified the PuTTY to add Active Directory (GSSAPI Kerberos) single sign-on feature. Quest PuTTY uses Microsoft’s Security Service Provider Interface (SSPI), which is Microsoft’s version of the GSSAPI, with which it is wire compatible. This version of PuTTY adds a new menu-item called GSSAPI, under <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Connection -> SSH</em>, as shown below.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Quest PuTTY with GSSAPI" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-161" height="297" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/1-quest-putty.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="Quest PuTTY with GSSAPI" width="443" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig – Quest PuTTY with GSSAPI option</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. <a href="http://linkc.at/wOKlKt" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Modified PuTTY</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">This <a href="http://linkc.at/wOKlKt" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">modified PuTTY</a> stores the PuTTY sessions in folder instead of storing it in the registry. If you already have sessions stored in the registry, it will display those also. The sessions stored in registry will be marked as [registry] as shown below. When you create a session using this PuTTY, this creates a sub-folder called session in the same folder where putty.exe is located, to store all the sessions in the file.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Modified Putty" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-163" height="266" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/1-putty-file.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="Modified Putty" width="296" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig – Modified Putty displaying both registry and file sessions</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. <a href="http://linkc.at/iP7jtr" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PocketPuTTY</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://linkc.at/iP7jtr" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PocketPuTTY </a>runs on Windows Mobile 2003/5.0 operating system. After I got my blackberry, I have dumped my Dell Axim that was running on Windows Mobile. So, I have not tried PocketPuTTY myself. If you’ve used PocketPuTTY or other mobile version of PuTTY, please leave your feedback.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PocketPuTTY UI" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-157" height="298" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/1-pocketputty.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PocketPuTTY UI" width="244" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig – PocketPuTTY for Windows Mobile</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Note:</strong> If you are using <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">blackberry phone</strong>, refer to Blackberry PuTTY Tutorial for installing and configuring PuTTY on blackberry.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. <a href="http://linkc.at/QvsqMa" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">portaPuTTY</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://linkc.at/QvsqMa" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #990000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">portaPuTTY</a> is a modified version of the PuTTY that stores the session information in a file by default, instead of storing it in the windows registry. The session files are stored under .putty/sessions folder. The .putty folder is created under the same directory where the putty.exe is located.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. <a href="http://linkc.at/N76aoy" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuTTY Portable</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://linkc.at/N76aoy" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuTTY Portable</a> is part of PortableApps suite. Use this to launch PuTTY from the USB drive and carry the sessions along with you.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. <a href="http://linkc.at/z2x3hC" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuTTY Launchy Plugin</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are using <a href="http://linkc.at/gdvOPl" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Launchy</a>, the open source keystroke launcher for windows, you can use <a href="http://linkc.at/z2x3hC" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Putty Launchy Plugin</a>, to launch putty sessions from Launchy very easily. i.e you can type “ssh” or “putty” followed by tab or space to list all of your PuTTY sessions. Once you select a particular session, Launchy will automatically launch that particular PuTTY session.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTY Launchy Plugin" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-164" height="236" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/putty-launchy.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Launchy Plugin" width="301" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig – PuTTY Launchy Plugin. Type ssh followed by tab.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11. <a href="http://linkc.at/PTDjlO" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuTTY Session Manager</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://linkc.at/PTDjlO" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuTTY Session Manager</a> will let you organize the PuTTY sessions into folders and assign hotkeys. This requires Microsoft .NET 2.0. Right click on the PSM icon in the system track and select “Session Hotkeys” to assign hot-keys for PuTTY session as shown below.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTY Session Manager Hot Key Assignment" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-158" height="215" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/1-psm-hot-key.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Session Manager Hot Key Assignment" width="389" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig – PuTTY Session Manager with session hot-key</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">To create a folder, right click on a particular <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY session -> Session Management -> New Folder</em>. To move a existing session to a folder, just drag the session and drop to the corresponding folder.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PSM Session List with folders" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-159" height="212" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/2-psm-session-list.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PSM Session List with folders" width="226" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig – PuTTY Session Manager with sessions inside sub-folder</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12. <a href="http://linkc.at/yksw06" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuTTY Command Sender</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://linkc.at/yksw06" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #990000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PuTTYCS</a> is very helpful little tool that can boost your productivity by eliminating repetitive tasks performed on different servers. Using PuTTYCS, you can send a unix command to multiple PuTTY windows at the same time. You can use this to backup files, view log files, start and stop processes, copying file etc., on multiple servers, just by executing the command once, as shown below.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="PuTTY Command Sender" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-160" height="289" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/1-puttycs.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Command Sender" width="387" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig – PuTTYCS sends unix command to multiple PuTTY session</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><code style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.929em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></code><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you liked this article, please bookmark it</em></div></div>

Softwere TURBOCHARGE PUTTY WITH 12 POWERFUL ADD-ONS – SOFTWARE FOR GEEKS

This article is part of on-going Software For Geeks series. PuTTY is hands-down the best, free, and lightweight SSH client for Windows. I h...

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10 AWESOME PUTTY TIPS AND TRICKS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Windows PuTTY Tutorial" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1092" height="257" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/putty-tricks-300x257.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 1.666em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Windows PuTTY Tutorial" width="300" />PuTTY is hands-down the best SSH client for Windows. It’s light-weight with a single putty.exe file and nothing else to install.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In this article, let us review 10 awesome native PuTTY tips and tricks that you might have not explored earlier.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span id="more-1036" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />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 <a href="http://linkc.at/KYsSN2" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a> before exploring these PuTTY tricks.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY Trick 1: Delete All PuTTY Sessions Together</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When you are swapping an old computer with a new computer, you may end-up transferring all PuTTY sessions to new computer. Once you’ve transferred all PuTTY sessions, execute “putty -cleanup” from the command line as shown below.</div><pre style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Consolas, 'Andale Mono', Monaco, Courier, 'Courier New', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.833em; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 0.667em 0.917em; vertical-align: baseline;">C:>putty -cleanup</pre><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This will display following warning message. Click on ‘Yes’ to wipe-out all PuTTY session and random seed files from the Windows registry. 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.</div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1059" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 341px;"><img alt="Fig: PuTTY Cleanup Sessions" class="size-full wp-image-1059" height="183" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-delete-sessions.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="How To Delete PuTTY SSH Sessions" width="341" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: PuTTY Cleanup Sessions</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY Trick 2: Change Font Size Automatically when Resizing PuTTY Window</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By default when you resize a PuTTY window, the font size doesn’t change. 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.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For example, when you are running Unix top command, if you try to resize the window, the output will get cut-off in the PuTTY as shown below.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1060" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 338px;"><img alt="Fig: Partial output truncated during PuTTY window resize" class="size-full wp-image-1060" height="308" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-top-command-truncated.PNG" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Linux Command Output Truncated" width="338" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: Partial output truncated during PuTTY window resize</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Launch PuTTY -> Select a Session -> Click on Load. From left side tree menu click on Window -> select the “Change the size of the font” under “When window size is resized” section as shown below -> Click on ‘Open’ at the bottom of this window to start the session.</div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1062" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 441px;"><img alt="Fig: PuTTY Change the font size automatically" class="size-full wp-image-1062" height="145" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-window-change-font-size.PNG" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="How to change PuTTY font color and size" width="441" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: PuTTY Change the font size automatically</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">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.</div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1063" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 506px;"><img alt="Fig: Unix top command output not truncated" class="size-full wp-image-1063" height="347" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-linux-command-not-truncated.PNG" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Linux Command Output not Truncated" width="506" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: Unix top command output not truncated</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Note:</strong> Instead of automatically adjusting the font size during window resize, you can also set the following options “When window is resized” from the PuTTY configuration window.</div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Change the number of rows and columns.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Change the size of the font. (this is the option we discussed in this tip)</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Change font size only when maximized.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Forbid resizing completely. (This option can be very helpful, when you don’t want PuTTY window resizing to happen)</li> </ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY Trick 3: Change the PuTTY SSH Session Window Title</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">By default, PuTTY software displays “username@hostname:~” in the PuTTY window title after you login. You can change this to any user-friendly text.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Launch PuTTY -> Select a Session -> Click on Load. From left side tree menu click on Window -> Behavior. On the right panel, in the ‘Window Title’ text box enter the desired windows title as shown below. After this change, make sure to save the session.</div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1066" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 453px;"><img alt="Fig: Custom Window Title for PuTTY SSH Session" class="size-full wp-image-1066" height="197" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-change-window-title.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="How to change PuTTY Window Title" width="453" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: Custom Window Title for PuTTY Session</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Load this saved PuTTY SSH session and login again to the server, which will display the new updated window title as shown below.</div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1067" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 370px;"><img alt="Fig: PuTTY Session showing user defined custom window title" class="size-full wp-image-1067" height="132" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-window-title-display.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="PuTTY Session Window Title" width="370" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: PuTTY Session showing user defined custom window title</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY Trick 4: View PuTTY Event log</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">When you are logged-in to a PuTTY SSH session, right mouse-click on the PuTTY window title, which will display PuTTY menu. Select ‘Event Log’ menu-item, which will display the following PuTTY event log window.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">This will be very helpful to debug any PuTTY SSH session issues.</div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1068" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 453px;"><img alt="Fig: PuTTY Event Log Display" class="size-full wp-image-1068" height="224" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-event-log.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="How To debug PuTTY issues" width="453" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: PuTTY Event Log Display</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY Trick 5: Paste to Clipboard in Rich Text Editor (RTF) Format</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Typically when you copy/paste from PuTTY window to a word document, it will paste only in plain text as explained below.</div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Login to PuTTY Telnet or SSH session without setting the ‘Paste to clipboard in RTF’ option that was explained below.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Execute ‘man ssh’ from the command line.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Copy the first few lines of the man output.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Launch Microsoft Word and paste the output. You’ll see only the text output without any formatting.</li> </ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Enable the RTF copy/paste feature in PuTTY software as shown below.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Launch PuTTY terminal -> Select a Session -> Click on Load. From left side tree menu click on Window -> Selection. On the right panel, select the check-box where it says “Paste to clipboard in RTF as well as plain text” as shown in the image below.</div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1069" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 440px;"><img alt="Fig: Enable Rich Text Paste to Clipboard in PuTTY" class="size-full wp-image-1069" height="194" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-enable-rtf-format.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="How to perform HTML copy/paste in PuTTY" width="440" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: Enable Rich Text Paste to Clipboard in PuTTY</div></div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Login to PuTTY telnet or SSH session after setting the ‘Paste to clipboard in RTF’ option that was explained above.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Execute ‘man ssh’ from the command line.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Copy the first few lines of the man output.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Launch Microsoft Word and paste the output. You’ll see only the text output getting copied with all the format as shown below.</li> </ul><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1070" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 588px;"><img alt="Fig: Rich Text copied from PuTTY to MS-Word with formatting" class="size-full wp-image-1070" height="173" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-copy-paste-to-msword.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="How to copy/paste from PuTTY to Microsoft Word" width="588" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: Rich Text copied from PuTTY to MS-Word with formatting</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY Trick 6. Make PuTTY SSH Session Always Stay On Top</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes when you are running a monitoring session (for example, unix top command), you may want the PuTTY client window to stay on top all the times.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Launch PuTTY terminal -> Select a Session -> Click on Load. From left side tree menu click on Window -> Behavior. On the right panel, click on the check-box where it says “Ensure window is always on top” as shown below.</div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1073" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 438px;"><img alt="Fig: PuTTY Window Behavior - Always on Top" class="size-full wp-image-1073" height="109" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-window-behaviour-top.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="How to make PuTTY session stay on top always" width="438" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: PuTTY Window Behavior – Always on Top</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">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.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY Trick 7: Launch PuTTY Client In Full Screen Mode</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Following are the two methods to launch PuTTY client in full screen mode.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Method 1:</strong> When the PuTTY client session is running, right mouse-click on the window title and select ‘Full Screen’ (or)</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Method 2:</strong> Launch PuTTY -> Select a Session -> Click on Load. From left side tree menu click on Window -> Behavior. On the right panel, click on the check-box where it says “Full Screen on Alt Enter” as shown below.</div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1074" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 437px;"><img alt="Fig: Press Alt-Enter for PuTTY Full Screen" class="size-full wp-image-1074" height="135" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-full-screen.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="How to change PuTTY to full screen" width="437" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: Press Alt-Enter for PuTTY Full Screen</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">After this change, when the PuTTY terminal session is running, press Alt Key + Enter Key to run that particular PuTTY session in full screen.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY Trick 8: Launch PuTTY Window Maximized by Default</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">By default when you launch any PuTTY terminal session, it runs in the normal window size. Sometimes you may prefer it to start in a maximized mode. Follow the steps mentioned below.</div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a new PuTTY windows shortcut.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Right mouse-click on this windows shortcut and select properties.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Click on the Run drop-down list and select ‘Maximized’ as shown below.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, anytime you use this PuTTY shortcut to launch any session, it will be displayed in maximized mode by default.</li> </ul><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1075" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 363px;"><img alt="Fig: Open PuTTY in Maximum Window Size" class="size-full wp-image-1075" height="302" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-shortcut-maximized.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="How to set PuTTY SSH shortcut run as maximized" width="363" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: Open PuTTY in Maximum Window Size</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY Trick 9. Move Putty sessions to another computer</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY stores all the session information in Windows registry. On the source machine, export the PuTTY session registry information as shown below.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia-4IqJgJBpDTND0bYakOAzZgogp9KCSHJVVNMIaWXIAmq3l92DUdUBsIWtITST9RwB-jT0SobdN-GR003yOPlkrP9eGRh5ym866e7c3lboaADxwZ2x9dq7_BjyvzyjQXhZij35cRxNbKL/s1600/Untitled.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat repeat; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(102, 102, 102) rgb(102, 102, 102) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 5px 5px 2px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 20px 10px 45px;">C:> regedit /e "%userprofile%\desktop\putty-registry.reg" HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Simontatham</blockquote></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Transfer this putty-registry.reg file from source machine to destination machine.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">On the destination machine, import the PuTTY SSH session registry, by right mouse-click on the putty-registry.reg and click on ‘Merge’. This will transfer all the PuTTY session information from one windows system to another.</span></div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1077" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 140px;"><img alt="Fig: Transfer Windows PuTTY Registry to another computer" class="size-full wp-image-1077" height="127" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-registry-file-merge.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="How to import and export PuTTY SSH session" width="140" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Fig: Transfer Windows PuTTY Registry to another computer</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PuTTY Trick 10: Launch Most frequently Used PuTTY Session Quickly</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;">To launch a most frequently used PuTTY session quickly, follow the steps below.</div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 1.571em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a new PuTTY windows shortcut</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rename this shortcut to your favorite name. For example, dev-db.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Right mouse-click on this shortcut and select properties.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the Target field, at the end append “-load putty-session-name” as shown below.</li> <li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, anytime you click on the dev-db windows shortcut, it will automatically launch the dev-db PuTTY session.</li> </ul><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1076" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #111111; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0.714em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 362px;"><img alt="Fig: Launch PuTTY session with one click from command line" class="size-full wp-image-1076" height="203" src="http://static.thegeekstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/putty-session-shortcut.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="How to launch PuTTY session from command line" width="362" /></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div>

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