Ever wanted to backup your Putty settings, either because you are changing machine or you have spent such a long time configuring the multiple custom options in Putty you don’t want to ever lose all that work. Unfortunately Putty does not have an export option so we have to go back to basics and export out the Putty registry key to save the settings. I will say now that if you are not comfortably with using regedit then I would suggest not taking the risk and leaving it well alone, one wrong change can kill your OS on the next boot.

If you are happy navigating the registry then you can backup putty by:

Launching regedit via the run box:

Or through the search box (by typing regedit)

(It really depends on what version of the Windows operating system you are running.)

Once regedit.exe launches you need to navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\SimonTatham

Once you have found the registry key you need to right click on SimonTatham and select export (as in the picture below)

All you need to do is save the .reg file somewhere save.

That’s it your putty settings have been backed up.

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