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Increase Scrollback Buffer in Putty
Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026136561 viewsConfidence Score1%
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Problem
I'm running Putty on Windows and can't find an option to increase the size of the scrollback buffer . It seems set at about 4 pages of text. Am I missing something?
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Fix for: Increase Scrollback Buffer in Putty
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You can increase the scrollback by selecting the Window options category and changing the Lines of scrollback option.
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