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This problem has occurred starting this morning. I haven't changed any display settings, updated putty, I hadn't even rebooted until trouble shooting.
Running Putty release 0.63 Vista Business OS.
When I open Putty, it displays on the task bar, however not on the screen. I've made sure the windows is not off the screen, when you right click task bar icon, click move, spacebar, arrow key it moves the cursor to the middle of the screen.
I removed all the reg entries and downloaded a new putty.exe even though I'm running the latest version. Same issue.
I've done the obligatory googling, doesn't look like a known bug.
Has anyone seen this?
todbanner
Posted 2015-06-10T19:12:58.517
Reputation: 113
Until you find a solution, Try using an alternative to putty, MobaXterm http://tecadmin.net/top-5-ssh-clients-for-windows-alternatives-of-putty/ On second thoughts, have you tried Alt-Tab? May just put focus on the putty window, or are you using multiple/ extended screens? Check your display properties.
– Lazy_Leo – 2015-06-10T19:32:11.410Thanks for your suggestions it is a single display computer. Alt tab does not help. When using move space bar arrow kwy to focus the pointer on the window the Pointer appears is in the center of the screen – todbanner – 2015-06-10T20:52:21.953
Can you access the rest of the putty menu from task bar? Can you enable Alt-Enter to full-screen, and try that? – Jim Davis – 2015-06-11T06:34:41.197
2SOLUTION / WORKAROUND: This issue effects PuTTy & KiTTy. Go to 'Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization' then 'Window Color and Appearance' and change to "Windows Vista Basic". – Taylor Taff – 2015-06-11T10:26:32.693