📘Export PuTTY Sessions or Full Settings

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You can back up your PuTTY session profiles or the entire configuration using the Windows Registry Editor.

✅ Export Only PuTTY Sessions

To export only saved sessions:

regedit /e "%userprofile%\Desktop\putty-sessions.reg" HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions

This will save a file called putty-sessions.reg to your desktop containing all your session configurations.

✅ Export All PuTTY Settings

To back up all PuTTY settings, including sessions and preferences:

regedit /e "%userprofile%\Desktop\putty.reg" HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham

This creates putty.reg on your desktop with the full configuration data.

🔄 To Restore PuTTY Settings

Double-click the exported .reg file and confirm when prompted to import it back into the registry.

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