Rxvt
rxvt is a great terminal emulator for Windows. I much prefer it over Putty, and especially the default cygwin command prompt. It's an optional cygwin package, and I highly recommend using it.
Here's some settings I use to tweek my default rxvt terminal.
My ~/.Xdefaults file:
rxvt*title: Bash rxvt*background: darkslategray rxvt*foreground: wheat rxvt*scrollBar_right: true rxvt*colorBD: 1 rxvt*font: courier rxvt*saveLines: 10000 rxvt.backspacekey: ^? XTerm*saveLines: 5000 XTerm*scrollBar: true XTerm*rightScrollBar: true
My cygwin shortcut:
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sl 2000 -fn courier -sr -e bash.exe --login -i
Another useful rxvt trick I learned is using the shift-keypad-plus and shift-keypad-minus to change the font sizes of an open window. You can open a new window with a big font like this:
rxvt -fn 'Lucida Console-24''