Starting ssh-agent on Windows 10 fails: “unable to start ssh-agent service, error :1058”

Yeah, as others have suggested, this error seems to mean that ssh-agent is installed but its service (on windows) hasn’t been started. You can check this by running in Windows PowerShell: > Get-Service ssh-agent And then check the output of status is not running. Status Name DisplayName —— —- ———– Stopped ssh-agent OpenSSH Authentication Agent … Read more

What does “Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support” actually do?

You can see it in ProcMon. It seems to set the REG_SZ values ACP, MACCP, and OEMCP in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage to 65001. I’m not entirely sure but it might be related to the variable gAnsiCodePage in KernelBase.dll, which GetACP reads. If you really want to, you might be able to change it dynamically for your program … Read more

How can I stop my installer from triggering Windows 10’s “This app has been blocked for your protection” error?

You are almost surely talking about SmartScreen, covered by this superuser.com Q+A. Not new in Windows 10, it has been around for quite a while already. Originally started in IE8, integrated into the operating system at Windows 8. A version that was skipped by many users so easy to think it is a new malady … Read more