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 You may need to run notepad as administrator and open the file from within there to be able to save it.

Generate SSH keys

• Generate a new ssh key with the following cmd (I use Git Bash terminal):

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "joebloggs.com"  (replace joebloggs with your email address but keep the quotation marks)

• When you are prompted to "Enter a file in which to save the key" press Enter (this accepts the default location)
• When prompted to enter a passphrase you can either enter a passphrase or leave blank by just hitting enter (if you opt for a passphrase then you need to enter it every time you e.g. push to gihub)

This should generate a key which starts with ssh-rsa .................... and ends with == joebloggs.com .

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Check in this file to make sure the above key has been generated C:\Users\<Your name>\.ssh\id_rsa.pub  (you may need to use "open with" e.g. notepad because

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it     defaults to a Publisher file!) 

• Add the key to github keys https://github.com/settings/keys 

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