select Default, go change those two options (recommend the Mensch font, but that's purely personal). Go back to the sessions screen, save this as default.
done. now every session you create will have UTF8 and a decent font by default.
I also suggest you change scroll back to 999 or 9999. And change the color of bold blue to something readable.
There must be a fork with sane defaults out there somewhere.
# set up for putty: # From: http://mshnitzer.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/export-putty-setti... comment:
reg export HKCU\Software\SimonTatham putty.reg reg import putty.reg
I'm not sure what's the standard now, but I also always set "use ssh protocol v2 only" -- and you probably should too (on the off chance that you have some ancient device that doesn't handle version 2, you should probably make an exception in that profile).