free windows terminal program?Follow

OK so I use cygwin to log into my linux machines remotely. However, emacs doesn't work well because the cygwin terminal (or MS Windows, or somebody) intercepts the control sequences, making doing anything a royal pain in the ***** For example, teh command to quit and save is control-x control-c. This no workie.

Can anyone recommend a good free terminal program under Windows which has a good chance not to intercept these commands?

vi is great for small editing jobs, but combine with cygwin's inability to resize the window horizontally, it's taking me forever to do some things I know so well in emacs.

I've been ftp-ing the code back and forth between my windows machine and linux machines, but this is a royal pain.