Ultimate Developer Laptop Apps (Wintel)

[bobspud]

right, gotcha.

PuTTY gets mentioned a lot and I may have to work with unix boxes in the future so it's worth a look

The Putty suite also contains an sftp client. With a little work, you can set up shared keys and a few windows shortcuts to give yourself automatic access.

[petergriffin]

gvim
cygwin
WinSCP
Putty

Plus eclipse or springsource tool suite as I am (mostly) doing Java these days.

If you have cygwin installed then putty, wincsp and gvim are redundant, as you will use the built-in ssh, scp and vim(vi). I personally prefer MinGW to Cygwin, you can build cross platform binaries for Win-Unix on it:
MinGW cross compiler for Linux build environment | MinGW

[doodab]

If you have cygwin installed then putty, wincsp and gvim are redundant, as you will use the built-in ssh, scp and vim(vi).

Actually they aren't, and I don't. I find the standalone gvim much better integrated with windows as I can just right click and "edit with vim", and putty also does serial ports which is handy on those rare occasions you need it.