SSH tunneling in Windows 10 using PuTTY
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Every once in a while you need to tunnel for example HTTP through SSH, which is usually pretty straight forward. For some reason this wasn't the case with Windows 10.

I tried going through normal settings of Windwos 10 and setting the proxy, but it just would'n tunnel the traffic, so here's another more classic way of doing it so that it actually works.

How to?
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First of all you need PuTTY and of course Windows 10, though this probably works on previous Windows versions too...

Then you need to set up the tunnel in putty:

	Host Name (or IP address): your.shell.com
	Port: 22 (or which ever port your shell is running on)
	
	Connection --> SSH --> Tunnels: 
	Source port: 8080 (or something else, preferably >1024) and click Add
	Destination: leave it empty and choose the "Dynamic" radio button
	
	Go back to session and you can save the settings by typing a prefered name in to the Saved Sessions field and clicking "Save"
	
	Click open and input your credentials

Now you go to Start -> Run: inetcpl.cpl
Next open up Connections --> LAN settings
Check the box "Use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections).
Click Advanced
Leave everythin else empty, just fill in the Socks part: 127.0.0.1 : 8080 and click OK --> OK --> OK

At least it worked for me...