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Preferences Tab (Login Dialog)
The Preferences tab allows user to change application preferences. Unlike most of the tabs of Login dialog its settings are global, not per-session.
The tab duplicates Interface tab of Preferences dialog for easier access.
Use the Preferences button to open Preferences dialog to change other application preferences.
Further Reading
Read more about the WinSCP Login dialog box:
- Session (basic session options)
- Sites/Stored sessions (to manage sites/stored sessions)
- Logging (to enable logging)
- Environment (server compatibility options, filename encoding, DST, etc)
- Directories (initial directories, directory cache)
- Recycle Bin
- SFTP (SFTP protocol specific/compatibility options)
- SCP/Shell (shell and SCP protocol specific/compatibility options)
- FTP (FTP protocol specific options)
- Connection (timeouts, keepalives)
- SSH (SSH protocol options and authentication)
- Key exchange (key exchange and reexchange options)
- Authentication (advanced authentication options)
- Bugs (detections of known bugs in SSH servers)
- Preferences (interface/behaviour configuration)