How to export/import Putty Sessions

We may need to export/import Putty sessions when we are moving to another laptop or system.

How to export Putty Sessions

Here are the simple steps

Step 1: Launch Run
Step 2: Type regedit
Step 3: Navigate to,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham
Step 4: Right-click on ‘SimonTatham’ key (directory icon), select Export Give the file a name (say) putty.reg and save it to Desktop
Step 5: Close Registry Editor.

If you just want putty sessions, then just do export on sessions

We can do this using a command prompt also

We need to open the Command Prompt in administrative mode, then we can run the below queries

regedit /e "C:\putty.reg" HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham
regedit /e "C:\putty-sessions.reg" HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\

This will generate the file in the C drive

How to import Putty sessions

This is pretty simple, just move the putty.reg file generated to another computer and just double click it, It will import all the putty sessions

Important Points

The above procedure does not move the ssh keys, those need to be done manually

I hope you find this post useful. Please do provide the feedback

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