Windows 10: PuTTY does not work correctly with the taskbar context menu?
When right clicking on the PuTTY icon in the Windows 10 taskbar, I get recent connections. Clicking on one of those just opens the PuTTY main page. Instead of connecting to that connection.
Is it me? How could I change that?
Solution 1:
This is a known issue with PuTTY 0.65 and older on Windows 10. See PuTTY bug win10-jumplists.
It seem to be a bug in Windows 10 triggered by PuTTY using the @ sign at the beginning of its command-line arguments used in jumplist shortcuts.
A workaround for the Windows 10 bug has been implemented and was released with PuTTY 0.66:
https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commit;h=8bf5c1b31f1a1449d694e3604e293b0831eb2657
Download here:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html
Note that, it won't magically fix existing pinned sites. You have to re-pin them.
Solution 2:
I also updated to the latest version of Putty (v. 0.67) and found that it still did not work (even after re-pining). However, I realized that I had to remove all my Recent Sessions for it to work properly.
I did the following:
- Unpin Putty from the taskbar
- Start Putty and re-pin it to the taskbar.
- Close Putty
- Right-click the Putty icon on the taskbar.
- Right-click each of the items in Recent Sessions and select Remove from this list)
This fixed it for me (all the steps might not be entirely necessary, but better safe than sorry).