SSH is looking in the wrong place for the public/private key pair on Windows

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Figured out how to manually set my home directory in Windows XP:

  1. Right click “My Computer”
  2. Choose the “Advanced” tab
  3. Click the “Environmental Variables” button
  4. Under the “System variables” section, click “New”
  5. In the “Variable name” enter in “home”.
  6. In the “Variable value” enter in the path to your profile.

To do the same via command prompt do :

setx HOME "your\path\to\home"

( Please note the suffix x – This is used to persist the change )

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