cmd.exe opens full screen. Just one little problem.......

I was surprised to find running a task under a command prompt allowed the screen to open to full size. That's great. The only downside for me was that the part of the task actually running was always off the bottom of the screen. Yes, it still scrolls automatically as before but you can never see the last line, which is what is actually being executed. Same when its finished. You have to manually scroll down.

Ztruker said:

Set the Taskbar to autohide, see if that show all od the window.

Ah... yes it does seem to display all now. One problem though. Having hidden the taskbar I couldn't easily find how to get it back. The only way seemed to be to press the windows key (to get me to the start screen), then select desktop.

Layback Bear said:

Right tick on the top of the cmd prompt screen and select properties.
You will find ways of adjusting size, fonts, background, and colors.

Thanks, I never knew that option was there.

Is this normal.... on the black screen, if I click and move the cursor it opens the screen up in white.

Mooly said:

One problem though. Having hidden the taskbar I couldn't easily find how to get it back. .

How about {Windows Key} and {T} together?

DavidY said:

How about {Windows Key} and {T} together?

Thanks, that's one I'll have to try later today (currently in the middle of a full sector by sector recovery after trying lots of stuff out)

Seems to be a glitch although I must admit that before today I never knew there were any user options for the cmd window.


David... I still haven't tried your suggestion (tomorrow :)), I'm on W8.1 at the moment.

Thanks :) In all the years it has just never occurred to me to look to change the properties of the cmd window. Now I know that you can... I shall have a play.