KB 139

How do I uninstall Putty?

Article:139
Created:2001-11-10 12:18:58
Categories:
  Windows 98
  Windows NT 4
  Windows 2000
  Security
  SSH

Question or Symptom

I'm having some configuration issues with Putty and I'd like to uninstall it and start over, but I haven't found the configuration files.

Resolution

putty -cleanup will "uninstall" it. There is no 'program install' per se, it is just an executable and uses a registry entry to store things that would usually be in ~/.ssh.

The key in question is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY

Further information can be found at the URL below.

Related URLS

 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html

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