Shell for Windows - it can do more!
It turned out, “cmd” not so dull as I thought..
It must be said I am familiar with command line interface since MS DOS 3.0, and I believe in comsole is more comfortable way to do many things. The more so I spend many years with Linux. Hereto I’m not afraid black screen and small blinking hyphen :)
Command-line Guide can be found, fro example for Windows 2003 and for Windows XP.
Provided to be, M$ develop command line nevertheless, at least exist some tricks I’ve never heard before.
Many useful ideas obviously fitched from Unix-world, but this fact do not minimize the technique importance.
In particular, “shutdown” can turn off network host.
Another useful thing don’t work for some unknown reason - autocompletion when you press Tab key.
At last I many years dream about changing color palette in cmd :). I have “green and black” palette with unix-shell so now I can do it on windows too :Ð