Today, I had to mirror a big part of a website to a local disk. For such operation, my favorite tool is wget. Unfortunately in this case, I had no way to use a UNIX host.
Not a problem, let’s ask Google if there exists some port to the Windows platform. Bingo! And it’s a Belgian citizen, Bart Puype who ported wget to Windows (latest release: 1.10.2).
Cygwin is of course a nice solution but I prefer a stand-alone binary. You just copy a .exe file and you’re ready! I always have my USB stick with a complete set of tools.
personally I use cygwin when stuck to windows (wget.exe is included)