#24 PSM fails upon connection attempt

[Jorge Valdano]

Using Putty v0.77 and Putty Session Manager v0.50.189, on Windows 10.

When I try to connect from PSM, I get an error popup with "puttygen, unrecognized option '-load'".

Are these two versions incompatible, perhaps?

[David R]

I think you have pointed the option for "Locate putty.exe" to PuttyGen.exe - it should be something like: "C:\Program Files\PuTTY\putty.exe" - not "C:\Program Files\PuTTY\puttygen.exe"

[Jorge Valdano]

You're probably right, where can I fix this? I uninstall PSM and reinstall it, and it never asks me the question, and when I start it it remembers the tree structure for my sessions, so apparently the uninstall doesn't do a clean job, and part of it is the incorrect path that persists.... The PSM folder is removed from Program Files (86) but the registry may be corrupted....

[David R]

If you go to the system tray and right click on the PSM icon, select options - you should be able to correct it in there. Or right click on some white space below the tree, and select options.

[Jorge Valdano]

I don't think so. In my config file I see this segment:

<setting name="PuttyLocation" serializeas="String">
<value>C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\putty.exe</value>
</setting>

[David R]

Could you screenshot the options box for me, eg:

[Jorge Valdano]

...and yet you were right, the config file I showed you above has the correct value, but the "options" menu you wrote had the incorrect setting. It's really strange but, hey, now it works.

Thanks a lot!

[David R]

No problems - the file you were looking at was probably the one that holds the defaults for first launch