SuperPuTTY: one Windows window for every console you keep open
Super PuTTY solves a single, very specific annoyance. PuTTY opens each session in its own top-level window, and by mid-afternoon your taskbar is a row of identical icons. SuperPuTTY wraps those same sessions in a docked, tabbed shell so you can see four servers at once.
What it adds
Docked tabs
Split the workspace horizontally or vertically and watch two logs side by side.
Session tree
Group hosts by customer, site or environment instead of scrolling a flat list.
Saved layouts
Reopen yesterday's exact arrangement of consoles with one click.
File transfer hooks
Launch PSCP or an external SFTP tool against the highlighted session.
Setting it up on Windows
- Install PuTTY first — SuperPuTTY is a shell around it, not a standalone terminal.
- Unpack SuperPuTTY into a folder you control and run the executable.
- In Tools then Options, set the PuTTY location, usually
C:\Program Files\PuTTY\putty.exe. - Import your existing sessions and arrange them into folders.
Trade-offs to know about
Because SuperPuTTY hosts another program's window, occasional redraw glitches show up on mixed-DPI multi-monitor setups, and updates arrive on a community schedule rather than a vendor one. If you would rather have tabs from a single vendor-supported product, the Bitvise SSH Client and Windows Terminal both handle multiple sessions natively. The side-by-side comparison lays out where each one wins.