Sane Putty Settings

Description

So, what's this all about?
By default, the PuTTY telnet/ssh client for windows comes with mostly stupid settings. The first thing i do on most computers i use a PuTTY with default settings on is changing the translation to UTF-8, directly followed by increasing the font size.
However, i of course tried to find a permanent solution so i won't have to do it every time i want to use PuTTY, at least on the systems i frequently use. I started by saving my customized settings as the "Default Settings" session entry in the PuTTY Configuration and began to make changes and saved them. Bad news first: the port number for new sessions is 0 once you saved a session as "Default Session" - which i consider a bug in PuTTY - which means you always would have to change it to 22 if you log in to a box. Another thing i completely hate is the right mouse button (pressed with the cursor anywhere inside the window) will just paste what you have inside the clipboard. I seriously have no idea how this made it to a default setting. Fortunately you can tell PuTTY to pop up the menu on right button click and the menu still got a "paste" entry. This saves me a lot of pain when using PuTTY so i made it a default. There's some other stuff i changed as well like the font, font-size and a scrollbar being hidden.

So i just created a custom "Default Settings" patch for PuTTY, which is a registry .reg file, which means it will do changes to your registry, to change the default font, font size, translation, etc. - be warned, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Requirements

This setup makes use of the "Terminus" pixelfonts (no antialiasing, fixed width), from my point of view the perfect font for use in terminals.

Download

Link to .reg file

What it looks like

This is what a standard session will look like (Note: i'm using PuTTY-tray):

UTF-8

If you really just want to fix the UTF-8 issue, definitely one of those things annoying me most about PuTTYs default settings, i have created a .reg registry patch for PuTTY which just changes only this one thing, leaving all other stuff untouched. Download here