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By just pressing ALT+ENTER keyboard shortcut, one can easily enable full-screen Command Prompt in Windows XP / Windows 2000, etc.

However, the Windows Vista Command Prompt will refuse to function in full screen mode, when you press ALT+ENTER key, with an alert dialog box that says This system does not support full-screen mode!

How to fully maximize Windows Vista Command Prompt window?

There are at least TWO ways to either fully maximize or enable full-screen Command Prompt window in Windows Vista.

As shown in the snapshot at above, the Vista Command Prompt window is fully maximized with both horizontal and vertical scroll-bar. Although, it’s not the full-screen mode in Windows XP/2000, this maximized Command Prompt window is easier to scroll up/down or left/right for your convenient of reading a long command line output, such as directory listing or command help information.

Fully maximize Vista Command Prompt window

1. Open an elevated-privilege Command Prompt window,
2. At the Vista Command Prompt, type wmic and press ENTER,
3. Click the Maximize Window button of the Command Prompt window (the middle button at the upper-right corner) to maximize it,
4. Type exit and press ENTER,
5. Right-click the Vista Command Prompt Title-bar and select Properties option menu,
6. Without changing anything, click OK button to close the Command Prompt Properties dialog box,
7. Type exit and press ENTER to close the current Vista Command Prompt.
8. Now, re-open the Vista Command Prompt window again (as in step 1), it should have automatically and fully maximized to fit your Desktop resolution! I tested it successfully in Windows Vista Ultimate, and I suppose this tricks will works on other Windows Vista editions as well!

You may also manually configure or set the window size of Vista Command Prompt, via its Properties dialog box, in the Window Size of Layout tab. Though, that’s trivial to configure both the width and height value for different Desktop resolution!

Enable full-screen Command Prompt window in Windows Vista

Please take note that this trick will not working if you’re using Windows Aero interface.

The full-screen Vista Command Prompt will only work if you have disabled the Windows Aero GUI - the look-through, classy window GUI that’s only available on Windows Vista Home Premium (and above) and is running on Vista Premium type of computer systems!

1. Open an elevated-privilege Command Prompt window,
2. Right-click the Vista Command Prompt Title-bar and select Properties option menu,
3. In the Options tab, set the “Full Screen” option in “Display Options” section.

Remember that this “Display Options” setting is not available or seen in the Command Prompt window Properties dialog box, if Windows Aero interface is turned on.

Topic - Howto, Windows Vista   Search - Command Prompt, Hack, Maximize, Tips, Windows Vista, WMIC

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