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It&#8217;s a very simple application for Windows that sits over PuTTY but provides 2 extremely useful features.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[91118]\" href=\"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/puttycm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-329\" title=\"puttycm\" src=\"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/puttycm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"puttycm\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The first feature is a list of all saved sessions so you can just double click and it opens a new PuTTY session inside the application.<\/p>\n<p>The second feature (and this one is great if you&#8217;re like us at work and manage lots of nodes) is a simultaneous command function &#8211; run the same command across as many PuTTY sessions as you want at once. 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