Various free useful utilities:
JPSoftware:
www.JPSoft.com Tcc/LE - cmd.exe on steroids. Years ago this was sold as NDOS, 4DOS, and 4NT, but it's now at version 13.
NirSoft:
www.NirSoft.net NirCmd.exe - another tool like Tcc/LE but with a good number of different more technically-oriented commands
IconExtract - Searches a folder and, optionally subfolders and displays a list of files containing icons, with images, and can extract icons.
Resource Extractor - Like Icon Extract except it can extract icons, bitmaps, AVI movies, HTML files and more from dll, ocx, and exe files
www.12Noon.com Display changer - command-line utility to change display resolution, etc. (Also various other utilities.)