'Power' button driving me nuts!

Its not old fasioned, its simply more advanced and quite sensible actually. Some stuff can be done much faster from CMD and it is a powerful tool.
Loading programs is faster too (aside from having loads of DT icons which look pug-ugly).

By the time you have gone

start->programs->(scan the list looking for a program to run)->myprogram

Its easier to do:

windowskey+R -> press enter (cmd usually already there) -> myprogram or command(enter)

I tend to do this with batch files as most windows apps dont set the paths for new programs (only MS ones do). Also you can even type the name of a document ie "mydoc.doc" and it opens with the right program (provided your command path is set to documents).

This can be a real quick 1-time setup for your favorite apps / utils: (for those who didnt know)

echo \prog[press Tab]\partname[tab]\partname[tab] > \mynewcommand.bat

Theres LOADS of handy stuff you can do with it, like quickly mapping drives, generating a file list eg:

dir /x prog[tab]\*.exe /b/s > mylist.txt

This to my knowelage is impossible to do in the gui.

I also reckon its somtimes faster than "the dog" at searching for files too if you point it in the right direction.