A poster on comp.security.ssh mentions that he had expected to find

the location of PuTTY's data storage mentioned in the manual section
about loading and storing sessions. This seems not unreasonable, so
I've put it there.

[originally from svn r3094]

doc/config.but

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-\versionid $Id: config.but,v 1.60 2003/04/05 11:52:42 simon Exp $
+\versionid $Id: config.but,v 1.61 2003/04/11 17:39:48 simon Exp $
 
 \C{config} Configuring PuTTY
 
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ Each saved session is independent of the Default Settings
 configuration. If you change your preferences and update Default
 Settings, you must also update every saved session separately.
 
+Saved sessions are stored in the Registry, at the location
+
+\c HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions
+
+If you need to store them in a file, you could try the method
+described in \k{config-file}.
+
 \S{config-closeonexit} \q{Close Window on Exit}
 
 \cfg{winhelp-topic}{session.coe}