A super simple, clean, terrific ssh tunnel client for windows is Bitvise Tunnelier. The docs I saw on here were a) from 2004 and b) recommending CYGWIN, so I thought I'd update and offer [what to me is] an easier solution.

Dmitri's steps are still the same, but instead of step 3 where you fire up your ssh console and punch in that cmd, do the following in Tunnelier:
- set up a basic connection to your remote server
- click the Server to Client (S2C) tab
- click Add (or dbl-click a blank entry)
- enabled, 127.0.0.1, 7869, localhost, 7869[, php debugger]
- Save Profile
- Click Login

You'll need to connect this ssh client just like any other before attempting when debugging.

To test:
click: Start>>Run "cmd"[enter]
type: telnet localhost 7869[enter]
You should see the little green arrow appear in the system tray Satellite icon as expected.

bitvise offers:
- simple setup
- intuitive gui (no cmd line req'd)
- toolbox of sftp client, ssh client, remote desktop built-in
- very clear logging/log window
- pretty icons

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smells like advertizing

no ad here.. just a great tool. Free for individual developers (check the license-- not sure of the specifics)

I was getting really fed up with PuTTY locking up and crashing out on Windows 7. Googling around it seems many have been having similar problems but I found no remedies. It was hitting my productivity so badly I took a look for other W7 compaitble SSH clients and eventually found Bitvise Tunnelier which is free for personal use.
I had some trouble setting it up as I had assumed I needed to configure a C2S path, but I found bcswebstudio's post here and configured the S2C path as advised.

It works brilliantly and I haven't had a single problem in the four hours or more the connection has been active so far. With PuTTY I was lucky to get two minutes!

I have no allegiance to Bitvise and make this recommendation simply because I found this to be a good product (so far) that cost me nothing and passing on this info may help others (just in case the moderator suspects my motives too .

I've been using Tunnelier for a couple of years now and also found it great.

The terminal has some convenient features, somewhat similar to a Windows Command window. The SFTP functionality is basic but convenient.

For new sites I now zip-up the files, use Tunnelier to SFTP the archive to the site, then use terminal to unzip and set permissions. Takes about 5 minutes to transfer a site that would take over 2 hours by FTP.