Does your laptop have Windows 10? The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is generally better than Putty and cygwin these days, and you can simply transfer over all the commands you use in Linux.
You can install it from the Windows Store as “Bash for Ubuntu on WIndows” and it gives you a BASH Start Menu item. WSL implements most of the Linux API and gives you a complete Ubuntu environment, which is in its own special area of the filesystem. The regular Windows disks can be found in /mnt/c and so forth. I use ssh csparc -L39000:localhost:39000 this way just like via MacOS or Linux. Also check out ssh -J if you need to go through some specific entry point.