As you know, the OpenSSH service for Windows under Windows 10 does not start automatically. Not sure why.
To fix that, and with help from the Internet, I wrote this simple Powershell script:
Start-Process "$psHome\powershell.exe" -Verb Runas -ArgumentList '-command "Start-Service sshd"'
…this calls powershell.exe as Administrator (resulting in a permission dialog) and starts the service. To get to this Powershell script, I placed the following Visual Basic Script (VBS) in my startup area:
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")
objShell.run("powershell -Executionpolicy Bypass -nologo -noninteractive -file C:\Users\jeffr\bin\StartService-sshd.ps1")
…arguably, this is messy, but it works.