removing confusing language and fixing link to our PuTTy and tortoise instrucitons

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<p>For Windows users only:
<ul>
<li>Read our instructions for setting up TortoiseHg in <a href="../tortoise/tortoise-win.htm">Tortoise-on-Windows</a>. (But this won't work at all until you set up the key exchange using PuTty/Pageant.)
<li><a href="https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html">PuTTY</a> including pagent. Version 0.73 was released on 2019-09-29. You need this to generate and to use ssh keys on Windows. Otherwise none of git, mercurial, scp, ftp or rsync will work. It includes command line tools ssh, scp (pscp) and sFTP (psftp).
<li><a href="https://gitforwindows.org/">Git for Windows</a>
<li><a href="https://tortoisegit.org/support/faq/#prerequisites">TortoiseGit</a> - GUI interface to git