Putty Toolkit07-26-2006

Putty Toolkit is a very nice application that has some nifty tools for managing Putty software solutions.It's packed with all sort of neat tools, but you will need to install at least one of the Putty applications in order to use the Toolkit and to enjoy all of its features.

Lightweight interface with plenty of features at hand

The installer allows you to add, remove or upgrade Putty tools on your computer or a public terminal. It sports a really intuitive graphical interface with plenty of features at hand. Putty Toolkit creates Start menu options on install for easy access.The first thing that you need to do after launching the application is to specify your connection by host name or by IP address. Simply type in the information in the empty column and mention the port.

Add, remove or upgrade Putty tools on your computer

You need to mention the protocol, choose between raw, Telnet, Rlogin or SSH, the latter is automatically selected. There's the option to load, save or delete stored sessions on your computer and you can choose what the application does when you exit it.Putty Toolkit comes with some options for session logging and you can have the application omit known password fields when logging to a SSH connection.

More tools and features

It comes with some terminal options that you can adjust, together with tools for your keyboard and bell. Appearance options are also available, you can change the cursor appearance, font size and style and adjust the use of the mouse pointer.Login details can be set and you can create a proxy connection. Exclude certain hosts or IPs or set a Telnet command for your proxy. Remote commands can be sent to servers and the application comes with some encryption options.All in all, Putty Toolkit is a very nice software solution packed with various tools for Putty applications.