I ran into a powershell script that Tomas Restrepo created to set putty up with a better color scheme. The color theme he used was based on Tango.
This inspired me to make a few updates to my default configuration for putty. I used the powershell script to update my color theme and then updated the configuration so that my home and end keys would work correctly (I’ve been putting up with that one for too long).
If anyone would like to use the same settings as me they can just download the following registry file and double click.
[download id=”5″]
The source code for the above file is the following:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\Default%20Settings] "Present"=dword:00000001 "HostName"="" "LogFileName"="putty.log" "LogType"=dword:00000000 "LogFileClash"=dword:ffffffff "LogFlush"=dword:00000001 "SSHLogOmitPasswords"=dword:00000001 "SSHLogOmitData"=dword:00000000 "Protocol"="ssh" "PortNumber"=dword:00000016 "CloseOnExit"=dword:00000001 "WarnOnClose"=dword:00000001 "PingInterval"=dword:00000000 "PingIntervalSecs"=dword:0000000f "TCPNoDelay"=dword:00000001 "TCPKeepalives"=dword:00000000 "TerminalType"="linux" "TerminalSpeed"="38400,38400" 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"TelnetKey"=dword:00000000 "TelnetRet"=dword:00000001 "LocalEcho"=dword:00000002 "LocalEdit"=dword:00000002 "Answerback"="PuTTY" "AlwaysOnTop"=dword:00000000 "FullScreenOnAltEnter"=dword:00000000 "HideMousePtr"=dword:00000000 "SunkenEdge"=dword:00000000 "WindowBorder"=dword:00000001 "CurType"=dword:00000000 "BlinkCur"=dword:00000000 "Beep"=dword:00000001 "BeepInd"=dword:00000000 "BellWaveFile"="" "BellOverload"=dword:00000001 "BellOverloadN"=dword:00000005 "BellOverloadT"=dword:000007d0 "BellOverloadS"=dword:00001388 "ScrollbackLines"=dword:00002328 "DECOriginMode"=dword:00000000 "AutoWrapMode"=dword:00000001 "LFImpliesCR"=dword:00000000 "DisableArabicShaping"=dword:00000000 "DisableBidi"=dword:00000000 "WinNameAlways"=dword:00000001 "WinTitle"="" "TermWidth"=dword:00000050 "TermHeight"=dword:00000018 "Font"="Courier New" "FontIsBold"=dword:00000000 "FontCharSet"=dword:00000000 "FontHeight"=dword:0000000a "FontQuality"=dword:00000000 "FontVTMode"=dword:00000004 "UseSystemColours"=dword:00000000 "TryPalette"=dword:00000000 "ANSIColour"=dword:00000001 "Xterm256Colour"=dword:00000001 "BoldAsColour"=dword:00000001 "Colour0"="187,187,187" "Colour1"="255,255,255" "Colour2"="8,8,8" "Colour3"="85,85,85" "Colour4"="0,0,0" "Colour5"="0,255,0" "Colour6"="46,52,54" "Colour7"="85,87,83" "Colour8"="204,0,0" "Colour9"="239,41,41" "Colour10"="78,154,6" "Colour11"="138,226,52" "Colour12"="196,160,0" "Colour13"="252,233,79" "Colour14"="52,101,164" "Colour15"="114,159,207" "Colour16"="117,80,123" "Colour17"="173,127,168" "Colour18"="6,152,154" "Colour19"="52,226,226" "Colour20"="211,215,207" "Colour21"="238,238,236" "RawCNP"=dword:00000000 "PasteRTF"=dword:00000000 "MouseIsXterm"=dword:00000000 "RectSelect"=dword:00000000 "MouseOverride"=dword:00000001 "Wordness0"="0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0" "Wordness32"="0,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,1,1" 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"BugIgnore1"=dword:00000000 "BugPlainPW1"=dword:00000000 "BugRSA1"=dword:00000000 "BugHMAC2"=dword:00000000 "BugDeriveKey2"=dword:00000000 "BugRSAPad2"=dword:00000000 "BugPKSessID2"=dword:00000000 "BugRekey2"=dword:00000000 "StampUtmp"=dword:00000001 "LoginShell"=dword:00000001 "ScrollbarOnLeft"=dword:00000000 "BoldFont"="" "BoldFontIsBold"=dword:0018f8e4 "BoldFontCharSet"=dword:016ef0a9 "BoldFontHeight"=dword:7719041d "WideFont"="" "WideFontIsBold"=dword:0018cc20 "WideFontCharSet"=dword:0018f8e4 "WideFontHeight"=dword:0018cb1c "WideBoldFont"="" "WideBoldFontIsBold"=dword:000003f8 "WideBoldFontCharSet"=dword:0018cc20 "WideBoldFontHeight"=dword:01000032 "ShadowBold"=dword:00000000 "ShadowBoldOffset"=dword:00000001 "SerialLine"="COM1" "SerialSpeed"=dword:00002580 "SerialDataBits"=dword:00000008 "SerialStopHalfbits"=dword:00000002 "SerialParity"=dword:00000000 "SerialFlowControl"=dword:00000001