I am running this on windows 8 and cmd. I have tried a lot of things and there is not many videos on youtube for this situation so if anyone knows how to fix this problem pleas tell me.
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Hello,
I would recommend following the steps from the official DigitalOcean documentation on how to use PuTTY on Windows in order to SSH to your Droplet:
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/connect-with-ssh/putty/
Regards, Bobby
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