- “Windows 7 Professional” is set – because that’s the current company standard
- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ – the latest released version was fine for me: 25.0.50.1 – I am always happy to get and try the very latest released version
- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq-w32/Downloading.html
- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ !!!!!
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/emacs-bin/files/snapshots/ !!!
- tramp – as packaged with the emacs at the location just referred to
- PuTTY to be found at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
- PuTTY-0.66 works for me – I am happy to try newer ones, if asked to
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
As recently I successfully ssh-connected to hosts beyond the corporate firewall using OpenSSH and PuTTY through a SOCKS5 proxy, I am now also able to create tramp-connections to “out there“.