[deanhills]

@deanhills @tryp4vps

If you use the .exe/.msi installer that is being provided at the official homepage of PuTTY and that installs all PuTTY tools, you can simply run the installer of the new version and let it override all old tools of PuTTY. Your saved profiles and etc. are untouched by this as they're stored somewhere else.

Just tried it, and the programme started freezing during installation.  It did install, but then when I tried putty, it wouldn't respond.  Initially it opened, but it wouldn't load the VPSs.  Then after that it timed out.  I'm sure I probably did something wrong.
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Wait a minute .... it's working now.  Perfectly.  No longer freezing.  Maybe it had to make some adjustments and when I ran it a second time it was better than ever.  Guess it's updated now, although it doesn't say so.

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Just checked in my Windows list of programs.  Only one program there and the up to date one.  So it did override the old one.  


In retrospect it was very easy to fix.  Here are the two Windows Installer dot.msi links for either 64 or 32 bit computers:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgta...atest.html

Also updated FileZilla: