Re: The Putty Problem

J.Alfred Prufrock <Poet@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:3J4BAX2J38613.8005902778@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> I thought of a way around the Putty problem of using the registry for
> the information for people that wish to use a floppy on different
> computers.
>
> 1. Using regedit, find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham and
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
> PuTTY_is1 export the keys as *.reg files. Put these file on the
> floppy disk with your PuTTY program. (Only the first key may be
> needed) 2. Before running PuTTY, click on the reg file to load your
> preferences.
>
> To get rid of these preferences (although not without leaving traces):
>
> Find the same keys and delete them.
>
> I haven't tried this, but it would seem to be a fast way of restoring
> the information rather than entering it all again - and still having
> the registry record it.
>
> J. A. Prufrock



Yep, that's how to do it.

Except it's easy to merge the two exported reg files (three? maybe export
HKU\...\SimonTatham too) into a single one called something like
puttyon.reg

And removing them is easier than going back in with regedit.

Make a copy of puttyon.reg called, say, puttyoff.reg.

You can remove the entire tree by putting a "minus" right after the first
left square bracket, like so:

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham]

and so on for each top-level key

Use puttyon to install the needed entries in the registry and use
puttyoff to remove them when you're finished.

Regards,

PS If for some reason you just want to remove an individual value set it
equal to a "minus" like so

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\DummyTree]
"ValueToBeRemoved"=-

.

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