{"id":40,"date":"2015-11-24T07:33:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T15:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudinsidr.com\/content\/?p=40"},"modified":"2015-11-26T05:55:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T13:55:18","slug":"tip-of-the-day-how-to-transfer-putty-settings-to-another-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/tip-of-the-day-how-to-transfer-putty-settings-to-another-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the Day: How to Transfer PuTTY Settings to Another Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users of <strong>PuTTY<\/strong>, the popular <strong>SSH client<\/strong>, can transfer PuTTY&#8217;s rather extensive settings to another\u00a0Windows PC by saving them in a registry file and merging the file with the local registry of the other computer, in three easy steps.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h6>Step 1. Find the registry key on your local computer<\/h6>\n<p>In your registry editor, this is the key that\u00a0you are looking for:<\/p>\n<pre>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\<strong>SimonTatham<\/strong><\/pre>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-03_this_is_what_to_select.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-03_this_is_what_to_select-300x142.png\" alt=\"PuTTY settings in Windows 10 registry\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-03_this_is_what_to_select-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-03_this_is_what_to_select.png 398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PuTTY settings in Windows 10 registry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-01-300x113.png\" alt=\"Searching the Windows 10 registry for PuTTY settings\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-01-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-01-600x226.png 600w, https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-01.png 755w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Searching the Windows 10 registry for PuTTY settings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h6>Step 2. Save the key in a .reg file<\/h6>\n<p><strong>Save this key and all information contained in it in a .reg<\/strong> file on your computer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-03.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-03-300x277.png\" alt=\"Saving PuTTY settings as registry keys in a .reg file\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-03-300x277.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-03.png 557w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saving PuTTY settings as registry keys in a .reg file on Windows 10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h6>Step 3. Copy to another Windows PC and merge with its local registry<\/h6>\n<p>Now copy the .reg file to another Windows PC and merge with its local registry (right-click in the Windows Explorer will do the trick).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-04_merge-e1448378453178.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-04_merge-e1448378453178-300x88.png\" alt=\"Merging PuTTY settings with the local Windows registry\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-04_merge-e1448378453178-300x88.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PuTTY-04_merge-e1448378453178.png 458w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Merging PuTTY settings with the local Windows registry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of PuTTY, the popular SSH client, can transfer PuTTY&#8217;s rather extensive settings to another\u00a0Windows PC by saving them in a registry file and merging the file with the local registry of the other computer, in three easy steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,19,20],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.5 - 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