PuTTY Manager

Connecting to a remote computer on your LAN is a rather easy job, especially if you enlist the help of a specialized tool like PuTTY. This particular utility is able to get you inside a PC where several users are registered, using a network protocol like Telnet, Rlogin and SSH, or through a serial or raw connection.

If you have several sessions which you save inside this tool and wish to manage and use concurrently, you might want to try PuTTY Manager as a helper. This application offers a tabbed interface which makes administration tasks a bit more easier.

All you have to do when starting this program for the first time is to specify the location of the putty executable, so it can use it to launch the configuration screen and open connections. The interface is very clean, empty actually, so you can populate it with groups and connections as you please.

All the commands that you will need when operating PuTTY Manager can be easily reached from the right-click menu. Thus, the window that contains all the customizable options of PuTTY, for example, can be simply brought up by selecting 'Manage connections'.

A neat functionality that is built-in this software solution is the ability to export and import PuTTY settings which come in the form of Registry files (REG). Managing connection groups is also rather straightforward since you can add or remove them, as well as have all groups expand or collapse, to view the contained items.

Judging just by looks, PuTTY Manager doesn't have too many things to offer, quite the opposite, but from the functional point of view, it functions properly and does away well enough with the tasks it is supposed to handle. The conclusion is that it is a balanced utility that serves the purpose for which it was created and will surely be more helpful for advanced users.