Make Pageant autoload keys at startup

pageant-autoload-keys-at-startup.txt

To make Pageant automatically run and load keys at startup:

- Find the location of pageant.exe

- Windows key + R to open the 'run' dialog box

- Type: 'shell:startup' in the dialog box

- Create a shortcut to the pageant.exe and put into this startup folder.

- Right click on the shortcut and open 'Properties'

- In 'Target' add: "<route to>/pageant.exe" myprivatekeyname.ppk

- In 'Start in' add: "<route to myprivatekeyname.ppk>"

- Click on the shortcut link and check that Pageant has started and has loaded your keys

- Install (Git for Windows)[https://git-scm.com/download/win]

- Install (putty)[https://putty.org]

- Set environment variable to use putty's plink `set GIT_SSH=C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe`


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Method Two

Install (Git for Windows)[https://git-scm.com/download/win]
Install (putty)[https://putty.org]
Open puttygen and generate new key
save the public key as id_rsa.pub under %homepath%\.ssh
save the private key as id_rsa under %homepath%\.ssh
add the public key to github account




To test github ssh:

- # ssh -T git@github.com