PowerToys "cmd here" properties

[here]

I've finally got the properties for the shortcut to the cmd prompt set
the way I want. Now how do I get PowerToys "cmd here" to use those
same properties instead of using the original defaults?

 

[SC Tom]

I've finally got the properties for the shortcut to the cmd prompt set
the way I want. Now how do I get PowerToys "cmd here" to use those
same properties instead of using the original defaults?

When you got your properties set and went to save them, did it prompt you if
you wanted this as default or for this shortcut only? If you answered set as
default, your PT command prompt here will be very similar, if not identical.
The only difference I see on mine is my CMD shortcut window is wider.

SC Tom

 

[here]

When you got your properties set and went to save them, did it prompt youif
you wanted this as default or for this shortcut only? If you answered setas
default, your PT command prompt here will be very similar, if not identical.
The only difference I see on mine is my CMD shortcut window is wider.

SC Tom

I set the properties for default, and everywhere else I launch a cmd
window from a shortcut the properties I set show up...except for the
cmd here window.

 

[here]

I set the properties for default, and everywhere else I launch a cmd
window from a shortcut the properties I set show up...except for the
cmd here window.

Now I have another problem. I set the properties to full screen, but
now can't reset it to a window, which is what I want. Is there a
keyboard sequence I can use to shrink full screen down to a window?

 

[here]

Now I have another problem. I set the properties to full screen, but
now can't reset it to a window, which is what I want. Is there a
keyboard sequence I can use to shrink full screen down to a window?

Nevermind. I discovered alt-enter. Thanks.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Hi,
Try this as an easy way to set globally the properties of the Command
Prompt (i.e. it's defaults).
Copy and paste the following into a Command Prompt window (Admin required):

copy C:WINDOWS\system32\console.dll C:WINDOWS\system32\console.cpl

...and you will have a new item in your Control Panel called 'Console' with
which you can set the properties for Command Prompt just the way you do in a
shortcut but applied globally as the new defaults for windows not yet
defined in their shortcuts.
Hope this is of some value.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Guest]

copy C:\WINDOWS\system32\console.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\console.cpl

No backslash after c:

 

[Tim Meddick]

Pardon?

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[SC Tom]

I think he meant "You forgot the backslash between C: and Windows."

 

[Tim Meddick]

Okay, but was it really worth pointing out. It would still work if you
executed it from C:\ and I think he missed the point of the 'fix' I was
suggesting...



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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Tue May 05 2009 19:26:27 GMT-0700 (Pacific
Daylight Time), and on a whim, Tim Meddick pounded out on the keyboard:

Okay, but was it really worth pointing out. It would still work if you
executed it from C:\ and I think he missed the point of the 'fix' I was
suggesting...

Tim,

You just said, "Copy and paste the following into a Command Prompt
window". Since opening a command prompt rarely opens at the root, your
suggestion would fail. So it is worth pointing out.


Terry R.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Fine


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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.