Go to Notepad++ and under Download, select the Download Notepad++ executable files link. From here, download the npp.N.N.N.Installer.exe and run this file to install Notepad++.
In the Control Panel, search for Environment Variable and Vista should bring up the Edit the system environment variables link which should bring up the System Properties dialog on the Advanced tab. Select the Environment Variables... button and if there is a System variable that looks like PATH (upper, lower, or mixed case), select Edit... and append the directory where Notepad++ is installed; on my machine ;C:\Program Files\Notepad++.
Now you can launch Notepad++ from the Command Prompt. It will be assumed that you have properly installed Cygwin. Now, create a directory, copy all the files into that directory, and continue. E.g.,
C:\Windows\System32>cd \Users\dwharder\Documents\p1 C:\Users\dwharder\Documents\p1>ls Cyclic_list.h Single_list_double_driver.cpp a.exe Cyclic_listTester.h Single_list_int_driver.cpp ece250.h Cyclic_list_double_driver.cpp Single_list_tester.h sld Cyclic_list_int_driver.cpp Single_node.h sld.out Exception.h Single_node_tester.h sli Single_list.h Tester.h sli.out C:\Users\dwharder\Documents\p>>notepad++ Single_list.h C:\Users\dwharder\Documents\p>>g++ Single_list_int_driver.cpp C:\Users\dwharder\Documents\p>>a.exe < sli Starting Test Run 1 % Okay 2 % Okay 3 % Okay 4 % Okay 5 % Failure in pop_front(): expecting the value '7' but got '0' 6 % Failure in size(): expecting the value '1' but got '0' 7 % Okay 8 % Okay 9 % Failure in front(): expecting the value '7' but got '0' 10 % Failure in back(): expecting the value '3' but got '0' 11 % Failure in head(): expecting a non-null head pointer 12 % retrieve: Command not found. 13 % 7: Command not found. 14 % next: Command not found. 15 % retrieve: Command not found. 16 % 3: Command not found. 17 % next: Command not found. 18 % retrieve: Command not found. 19 % 7: Command not found. 20 % Okay Finishing Test Run C:\Users\dwharder\Documents\p>>cat sli.out Starting Test Run 1 % Okay 2 % Okay 3 % Okay 4 % Okay 5 % Okay 6 % Okay 7 % Okay 8 % Okay 9 % Okay 10 % Okay 11 % Okay 12 % Okay 13 % Okay 14 % Okay 15 % Okay 16 % Okay 17 % Okay 18 % Okay 19 % Okay 20 % Okay 21 % Okay 22 % Okay 23 % Memory allocated minus memory deallocated: 0 24 % Exiting... Finishing Test Run C:\Users\dwharder\Documents\p>>
You may notice one difference from Unix: the executable is understandably called a.exe and not a.out.