the command line should stay, though i have kind moved away from windows to linux, i think the cmd line is a very handy tool. looking at the way it was placed in xp, thats a pretty good place for it. what more hiding is there do?
whenever i use windows i have to access the cmd line to i have written a couple of batch utility files and i prefer to access them from the cmdline other than going to the directory where i store them through explorer and just clicking on them.