Cyd's answer seems to apply to Kitty Classic (not Portable).
I have been unable to get PuTTY settings directly into KittyPortable. The problem is that, being portable, KittyPortable does not even LOOK at the C drive, so it can't read the PuTTY keys in the Windows registry.
I was able to accomplish it indirectly by installing Kitty Classic, which automagically picked up PuTTY's registry keys, and then running
KittyPortable.exe -convert-dir
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If you do NOT have administrative rights on your PC, continue reading. Otherwise, skip down.
This approach will not work if you don't have sufficient privileges to install Kitty Classic. Many people do not have admin rights on their PC at work, but this is where you might want to use KittyPortable.
So you need to convert your PuTTY settings to Kitty on a machine you have admin rights on, such as your home machine. But maybe your home machine doesn't have the PuTTY config settings that you use at work.
So you would need to export your PuTTY registry keys at work and import them on your home PC.
Run regedit, select
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions
and do File/Export (make sure the radio button for "selected branch" is selected). Then go to a PC on which you have admin rights (your home PC, maybe), install PuTTY, double-click the exported registry file that you exported earlier (this imports all the PuTTY sessions), and then...
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resuming...
- Create a folder somewhere called kitty_portable (preferably not on
the C drive).
- Download both the Windows Classic and Windows Portable
versions of Kitty from http://www.downloadbestsoft.com/KiTTY.html and
put them in your kitty_portable folder.
- Launch kitty.exe. It will pull in all of your PuTTY config settings. Close kitty.exe.
- Go to a DOS shell, cd to the kitty_portable directory, and type:
KittyPortable.exe -convert-dir
- Delete kitty.exe (you won't ever need it again)
Running KittyPortable.exe with the -convert-dir param will create several folders in your kitty_portable folder, including all of your PuTTY settings (which are now stored in plain textfiles instead of using the registry, like PuTTY does. This folder is 100% portable and does not even access the C drive.
Whew.
1Do you happen to be using a portable version of either that didn't install their settings to the registry? – uSlackr – 2012-04-09T17:04:17.730
I've installed KiTTy and all my settings from PuTTy are in there. Maybe it is a version mismatch? – XSlicer – 2012-04-09T16:59:26.260