Comments on: 10 Awesome PuTTY Tips and Tricks You Probably Didn’t Know

By: Alix

Alix — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:46:57 +0000

Hello, I’m using pettycm since one year, I get this message : RUNTIME ERROR : Unable to load external plugin library (C:\mfc71.dll)
Error : Could not load file or assembly ‘file:///C:\mfc71.dll’ or one of its dependencies
Error : Could not load file or assembly ‘file:///C:\msvcp71.dll’ or one of its dependencies

WhenI execute Pettycm the windows is white and doesn’t work, I need your Help I’v reinstalled the Pettycm it’s same…

Thank you

By: Alexander Ewering

Alexander Ewering — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:56:43 +0000

While Putty might be the best SSH client for Windows (I haven’t tried any others), its UI is a complete nightmare and notoriously “open-sourceish”, i.e., hard to use for anyone with a normal brain.

The session saving/loading facility is ridiculously hard to understand and use, the taskbar button and main window vanish/reappear without any sign of concept, and when you misspell the login name, bummer – you have to restart the whole enchilada.

By: Ash

Ash — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:15:23 +0000

hi, thanks for the great tips
i have a question if i have a html page with a drawing of routers and switches and i want to click on each and open a putty session of each (click and be in the ssh session of this router or switch) how is that possible

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:50:38 +0000

Trick 10 – did not work for me until I renamed my stored session. Had started the name with a capital letter

Kind regards

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Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:03:58 +0000

[...] Use PuTTY -> Select “Serial” -> Make sure serial line is set to “Com1″ -> and speed is set to “9600″ [...]

By: arielCo

arielCo — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:00:34 +0000

@Zakaria: Careful, 2 billion lines practically means “use as much memory as the o/s allows”. If PuTTY segfaults for lack of memory you’ll have zero to save.

By: Zakaria Shaikh

Zakaria Shaikh — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:22:51 +0000

I set the ‘Lines of scrollback’ to 2000000000.
That way I can save all the work done for future reference.

By: VIJAY

VIJAY — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:50:36 +0000

Great tips .. thnx

By: BDH

BDH — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:11:39 +0000

If after installing Putty Connection Manager, you have the problem where when you open a single or multiple sessions and they open under seperate windows outside of Putty Connection manager, do the following to correct the issue. Open Putty Connection Manager and click on “TOOLS” – “OPTIONS” then in the options window on the left side click on Plugins and then Putty. Then on the right side of the window put a Check in the box next to “Enable additional timing for PuTTY capture (ms); and set the timing to 800ms. This corrected the issue for me and I can now open a single session or multiple sessions inside the PuTTY Connection Manager window.

By: Indie

Indie — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:29:12 +0000

@Salih: That has nothing to do with PuTTY, it’s configured by the systems resolver library and is called the DNS suffix search list. Under you can configure it under the interface properties or as a local policy object. If you google for the above phrase you’ll get plenty of results.