This program is dead simple. You're inside Windows Explorer, and want a shell window. Once this hotkey script is running, you can just press Ctrl-O. Reminiscent of KDE Konqueror's embeddeded console. I find it useful when programming or doing file management. It can be placed in the Start->Programs->Startup folder so it's always available.
Download the program
Download also a batch file you need to save into the directory c:\cygwin
The script code (requires AutoHotKey which is great)
this script has no license, say public domain.
Brendan O'Connor <brenocon @ gmail.com>