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Fatal error was starting Putty after having saved settings

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Christophe
Christophe
Markdown, WSL and Docker lover ~ PHP developer ~ Insatiable curious.

Fatal error was starting Putty after having saved settings

A few days ago, I've updated my Putty configuration to set the default font-size to 12; no more 10.

Today, by starting Putty, whatever on which server I wish to join, I got the No supported authentication methods available followed by, in my case (server sent: publickey, gssapi-keyex, gssapi-with-mic, keyboard-interactive) fatal error.

I've only understand the origin of the problem by looking at the window caption: Putty tries to connect to a server other than the one I want. Why? And, ah, ok, last time I've modified my settings I was working on that server so, the solution should come from: how can I reset my Putty settings?

The solution has been provided by @makurison on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57072011/delete-putty-default-settings-modification-to-original.

Simply start regedit.exe, search for the key Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions and, there, remove the entry called default/20session.