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I updated my cygwin (specifically my bash shell) to a 4.something version. CTRL-C did not work anymore. This was a pain as I kept having to kill the cygwin window with the close window x. Was not able to effectively use history and stuff. I 'updated' by cygwin by installing setup.exe again. I filtered the install down to bash so I could find the shell and then clicked on it a few times until is showed version 3.something. This now supports ctrl-c and has retained all my nice history stuff from before. The font is a bit small, but I am sure I can remedy that. Less important than ctrl-c to me.

When I am setting up a new windows PC one of the first things I do is to set up a ' command prompt here ' shortcut on my context menu in windows explorer. This is fairly straightforward and there are a number of ways to do it. The one at the link given above is pretty fool proof. I do however use cygwin for most of my day to day command line needs. Getting to a specific directory in cygwin is a bit trickier than getting to C:\... This link describes the simplest way to get this job done for Cygwin. Note that this is just for Cygwin. If you are using another flavour of bash for example you will need to dig that answer out too.