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Export/Import Putty Settings

Navigate to the following key in the registry, select it, right click, select Export, give it a name, and save it.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY

To import, double-click on the saved .reg file and answer yes to merge it.

Recover From an Offline Source

Open the registry editor and do the following:

  1. Select/highlight the HKEY_USERS key
  2. Go to File > Load Hive
  3. Navigate and select %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users%USERNAME%\NTUSER.DAT
  4. Enter in a display name for the imported hive such as "recover"
  5. Navigate to the new "recover" hive
  6. Find the Software key and follow the path in the directions above to export
  7. Text edit your saved .reg file and find and replace all instances of HKEY_USERS\recover with HKEY_CURRENT_USER
  8. Now merge the settings with your registry as above
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