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Beware!

It's dangerous to use prototyping professionally. Sometimes management folks tend to "not realize" the difference between a well done prototype and the result they desire for real. - Therefore use GPL licensed stuff "for compliance reasons" - if you know what I mean. Saves job and time.
There're numerous ways to enhance the following examples. Feel free to do so.

No more emulation

When it comes to the commandline administrators all over the Windows worlds nowadays think of Cygwin or Powershell. However Cygwin is a special layered environment and Powershell is .Net dependant and not very reactive.
Therefore I tend to turn back to the good old DOS-like commandline and add some stuff to the environment path in order to ease my life. However many people may think that extending your commandline tools doesn't help you in situations where you don't find these tools: on Windows the commandline is just an extra. The following stuff of course doesn't help you to do post-exploitation or to show of at your friends machine. But it helps to save time. My time ;).

UnixUtils

Usability war

I began to read Windows Internals in the 5th edition by Mark Russinovich and David Solomon. There're experiemnets in there on how to do Kernel mode debugging, or how to include Debug symbols with Sysinternals ProcessExplorer... and lots of fascinating stuff to try in order to explore the architecture of modern NT6 systems. Before I was able to start my explorations, I had to install Windows 7 (NT 6.1) on a MacBook. But there's Bootcamp and Apple officially supports it. So... that shouldn't be a big deal?!