Due to my new job, I unfortunatly have to to go back to Windows XP. Anyhow, I will be working in the shell a lot, and have Cygwin already running. The irritating part though is the inflexability of the shell window when running under cmd.exe. Is there a better Windows shell program similar in flexibility to say PuTTY for resizing and generally acting like a unix shell?

I still may request an OS X box and use Remote Desktop if things don't go to well. I'm already fighting a lot with Outlook, trying to use the "Saved Search" folders. It's not a wonder I haven't seen others use them, the interface for them is absolutly horrible.

And no matter what I do, pounding on F9-F11 does nothing. Grr.