Add color, tabs, and copy/paste to the Windows console

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Add color, tabs, and copy/paste to the Windows console

by Brad Linder Mar 6th 2008

If the stark black screen and white text of the Windows command console doesn't do it for you, you might want to check out Color Console. It's a free application that has all the features you'd expect from a basic Windows command prompt, and then some. For example, you can change your color scheme to yellow, orange, blue, or "matrix," which is a custom black and green skin.

While the color feature is nice, Color Console also has a few tricks that are a bit more functional. For example you can open up multiple console windows in a tabbed interface. And you can easily copy text from the console and paste it into any Windows application. There's even a beta print feature that will let you print the contents of a console window in full color.

[via Brown Thoughts]

Tags: cmd, color-console, command-prompt, console

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Edward Nardella said 4:48PM on 3-06-2008

Uhh the color feature is built in already by default, right click the title bat the properties and the color tab.

Brian said 5:44PM on 3-06-2008

I prefer the program "Console". It's free and open-source!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console

Screenshot:
http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=43764

marsflip said 7:16PM on 3-06-2008

Haven't tried this particular app so I can't compare them, but I reiterate Brian's recomendation for "Console" - it's a great replacement to the Windows console shell.

komodo said 6:31AM on 3-07-2008

nice addon

Anth said 7:59AM on 3-07-2008

i prefer just typing color 0a.

kobewan said 8:00AM on 3-07-2008

I've been looking for a good console replacement after switching back from Linux. The Windows console is completely pathetic (no easy copy-paste, no saved history, no scrolling from the keyboard etc.). How close are they to porting Konsole?

dave said 8:01AM on 3-07-2008

the stuff on this downloadsquad can be excellent, but don't this add to the waste of time category

i know i don't own this site or have any part of it but come on,does any one know some sites that are better than this

dickle said 2:54PM on 3-13-2008

Komodo, you're a moron dude. I originally thought this post was about a replacement for windows' cmd.exe. Turns out this story is about something else, but I still found what I was looking for, because of Brian's Console recommendation. Waste of time for you maybe, but I got what I needed, douchy.

Bloggs said 10:47AM on 3-19-2008

Does anyone know of any of these cmd add-ons/replacements that allows you to log a full session to a text file, similar to what you can do in putty sessions?

Claudi said 9:32PM on 5-18-2008

WoW excellent program,
ColorConsole is real excellent.
Is like Linux but better.
Thanks Downloadsquad,
send more reviews like this!

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