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Setting the Defaults for PUTTY

September 20, 2009 by Greg Ferro · 6 Comments 

This Post is Part of a Series — click for list on Console Mastery»

Putty is is a great piece of soft­ware. Because it works and it’s free I find it installed on most cor­por­ate desktops as the default soft­ware for ter­minal cli­ent on Windows.1. Not many people seems to real­ise that Putty is highly cus­tom­is­able and has a num­ber of fea­tures that will improve your work­ing environment.

When putty starts.…

When putty starts it uses the default con­fig­ur­a­tion. But where does the default con­fig­ur­a­tion come from ? And how can I set the default’s for every ses­sion. This is the stand­ard open­ing screen for putty:

Standard Opening Screen for Putty

Standard Opening Screen for Putty

Lets change the default ter­minal length to 40 lines instead of 24. (A more detailed dis­cus­sion for WHY you would do this in Setting the Terminal Window Length)

Changing putty default win­dow length to 40 lines

Head down to the Window Category on the left, then click into the Rows and change the value from 20 to 40.

Set the terminal length to 40 lines

Set the ter­minal length to 40 lines

Now, in the Category Window, head up to Session, and then click on Default Settings.

Save the Default Setting

Save the Default Setting

Now click the SAVE button.

And then

From now on, everytime you open putty, the win­dow will be forty lines long.

Just to be clear, any­thing that you change is any of the win­dows can be set as the default using this process.

Footnotes

  1. After all, Microsoft doesn’t sup­ply any SSH in Windows or even tel­net cap­ab­il­ity in Vista [back]

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6 Responses to “Setting the Defaults for PUTTY”
  1. dferry says:
    20 September 2009 at 12:52

    Hi,

    This is a great series of articles.

    I’d just like to men­tion that there is a addon called Putty CM which gives you pos­ib­il­ity for tabs for each ses­sion. It allows you put the tabs side to side or on top of each other which for troubleshoot­ing I find quite use­ful,.
    Give it a go. http://​puttycm​.free​.fr/cms/

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  2. Steve B says:
    20 September 2009 at 20:23

    Another thumbs up for Putty CM here — the tabs fea­ture saves all sorts of con­fu­sion when troubleshoot­ing some issues.

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  3. michael says:
    21 September 2009 at 15:13

    - as always very use­ful info on your blog
     – 1+ putty cm

    another great fea­ture to have con­figured by default is ses­sion log­ging — you can con­fig­ure it with date and host­name place­hold­ers — set it with “print­able out­put” and “always append to the end of it” and always have an organ­ized ses­sion history

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  4. kicay says:
    25 September 2009 at 15:18

    I also add log­ging all ses­sion out­put to log file.

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  5. vinayag says:
    30 January 2010 at 06:11

    after a hour i found from google, this use­ful link for chan­ging & sav­ing the default setttings.

    Thanks to author.

    Vinayag

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