Whenever I get stuck with a Windows box, one of the first things I do is load cygwin. I even have it on a Win-VM running in OS X. It's not a perfect solution,

Whenever I get stuck with a Windows box, one of the first things I do is load cygwin. I even have it on a Win-VM running in OS X. It's not a perfect solution, but it works well enough that I can live with it (which is rare).