Get the GnuPG 1.2.4 Win32 Binaries Installation (DO NOT USE ALTERED PATHS): German Windows: %ProgramFiles% = "C:\Programme" %APPDATA% = "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\%USERNAME%\Anwendungsdaten" English Windows: %ProgramFiles% = "C:\Program Files" %APPDATA% = C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data" Create %ProgramFiles%\GNU\GnuPG and extract the GnuPG Binaries into this directory Create %APPDATA%\GNU\GnuPG (this is the GnuPG HomeDir) and copy gpg.conf into this directory Merge gpg.reg with your registry (double-click) Read the gpg-readme.txt (German only at this time :-/) Suggested readings about PGP/GPG: