Command Prompt Default Size

[CurlingSteve]

I'm sure the rest of the world has known this forever, but just in case there's one other person out there who didn't...

It's bugged me for a long time that a Command Prompt window won't resize beyond some fixed width.

After years of going cross-eyed reading word-wrapped output, I found a workaround.

If you click the upper-left corner of the window, there's a Defaults option.

(Actually you get the same box by clicking Properties).

In there, among other things, you can set the maximum window width on the Layout tab.

I still don't get why you can resize vertically just by dragging and not horizontally, but that's Windows for you.

[martymas]

hi CurlingSteve

ive just been to the command prompt.

and tested your theory

and my you are correct .

just goes to show none of us can master any sys.

thanks for the insight.

marty

[agentm]

Hey guys, no offense, but...

I guess you're in the group windows experts?

as I said: no offense, just kind of funny

agentm

[Chappy]

Hey guys, no offense, but...

I guess you're in the group windows experts?

as I said: no offense, just kind of funny

agentm

Well, not as many folks as you think, knew about this. I've fielded many questions about why a cmd window won't resize horizontally, and these were from folks who are genuine windows experts. Many think it takes a reg hack to do this and many also don't know there's a right-click option for cmd windows.

I guess it goes back to their pre NT kernel days...

[Pete_C]

With the command.com command prompt , you can go to the file itself

(In XP it is in C:\WINDOWS\system32 ) and right click => properties => font

And choose the font size.

CMD is an executable cmd.exe

But as you noted, if you right click on the "toolbar" area you get a properties option where you can adjust the font.

Lots of other things there too.

I thought everyone knew this.