Setting up my machine the way i like

The Joys of Setting up a new Vista Machine (NOT)

Ensuring Cygwin works correctly.
1. install cygwin as Administrator
2. run as non-admin user
3. start ash from windows cmd shell
4. rebaseall
5. Get xterm to show up with correct options (scrollbar and history)
http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com/msg17510.html
create a .Xresources file in your home directory that includes
Xterm.*.saveLines: 3000
Xterm.*.scrollbar: true
6. create menu of favorite items in context menu for XWin status bar icon
man XWinrc
http://sinewalker.wordpress.com/2006/04/
7. get "clear" to work by aliasing to 'printf "\ec"'
http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com/msg17052.html