Programming Utilities that i think is essential

Remote Session client [Telnet/SSH/RLOGIN/Serial]

Xshell4

http://www.netsarang.com/download/main.html

Putty Connection Manager

http://sourceforge.net/projects/puttycm/

Putty

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Teraterm

http://www.ayera.com/teraterm/

Remote Desktop Handling utilties

Total Commander

http://www.ghisler.com/

UltraVncViewer

http://www.uvnc.com/download

NetMeeting

Windows Run Prompt -"conf"

Windows Remote desktop

Windows Run Prompt-"mstsc -v "

Editors:

Komodo Edit

http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit

Notepad++

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Python IDE -capability of compile and run

http://code.google.com/p/pyscripter/

File Transfer

WinSCP

http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

TFTP

http://www.tftp-server.com/

TFTP -which can be used for automation for transferring the images to a local client

http://tftpd32.jounin.net/

Note:Tftpd at times failes in busy box environment during "get"

Alternate TFTP

3Com_TFTP_Server

Cygwin-Linux like environment for Windows

http://www.cygwin.com/