Solarized Light is much nicer for me to use than the default PuTTY color scheme.

Combined with a couple of other changes, it gives me a nice layout in PuTTY.

PuTTY stores its settings in the Windows Registry.  So, to apply Solarized Light to a session:

1. Back up your registry settings using Regedit’s export utility.
2. Create a PuTTY session in the usual way, and save it.
3. Place the below in a text file with a .reg file extension.
4. Replace FOO%20BAR on line 3 with the PuTTY session name (spaces are %20).
5. Double-click the .reg file to launch the Registry Editor, which loads the values.

See below:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00  
; Replace "FOO%20BAR" with the PuTTY session name you would like to modify.  
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\FOO%20BAR]  

; Color options  
"ANSIColour"=dword:00000001  
"Xterm256Colour"=dword:00000001  
"BoldAsColour"=dword:00000000  
"TryPalette"=dword:00000000  
"UseSystemColours"=dword:00000000  

; Solarized light color scheme  
"Colour0"="101,123,131"  
"Colour1"="88,110,117"  
"Colour2"="253,246,227"  
"Colour3"="238,232,213"  
"Colour4"="238,232,213"  
"Colour5"="101,123,131"  
"Colour6"="7,54,66"  
"Colour7"="0,43,54"  
"Colour8"="220,50,47"  
"Colour9"="203,75,22"  
"Colour10"="133,153,0"  
"Colour11"="88,110,117"  
"Colour12"="181,137,0"  
"Colour13"="101,123,131"  
"Colour14"="38,139,210"  
"Colour15"="131,148,150"  
"Colour16"="211,54,130"  
"Colour17"="108,113,196"  
"Colour18"="42,161,152"  
"Colour19"="147,161,161"  
"Colour20"="238,232,213"  
"Colour21"="253,246,227"  

; 256 color support  
"TerminalType"="putty-256color"  

; UTF-8 character support  
"LineCodePage"="UTF-8"  
"UTF8Override"=dword:00000001  

; Consolas 12pt ClearType font  
"Font"="Consolas"  
"FontHeight"=dword:0000000c  
"FontQuality"=dword:00000003  

; Windows style copy-and-pasting (right click to paste)  
"MouseIsXterm"=dword:00000000  

; Scrollback buffer set to 2000 lines  
"ScrollbackLines"=dword:000007d0  

; Seconds between keepalives set to 59  
"PingInterval"=dword:00000000  
"PingIntervalSecs"=dword:0000003b  

; Mouse pointer hides while typing  
"HideMousePtr"=dword:00000001  

; Initial window size set to 80x40  
"TermHeight"=dword:00000028  
"TermWidth"=dword:00000050

A big thank you to:

• Pretty Putty
• Solarized
• Modern PuTTY Settings