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>And you don't have to install anything. I chuck it all in c:\windows and it's available in PATH then.

You think copying random files from the internet into system directories with no tracking, no upgrade management, no uninstall capability is a good thing?

It's not a particularly great thing, but it's "good enough" for your average single shot laptop.

If it was a corporate machine, we'd package it and deploy it via GPO.

No, it's secure. All you have do is first download a random GPG exe from the internet and check the .sig using the PGP key supplied with PuTTY :-)

Sure you know but you could just edit the PATH variable as well so you don't have to muddy up c:\windows.

I know about putty of course, the problem is that I feel I have to ask people if it's ok if I install mysterious hacker software on their computer. Maybe I just need to get over that.