Alternative Windows shells besides CMD EXE

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I don t like CMD EXE  the built-in Windows terminal  Among its problems    Hard to copy and paste  Hard to resize the window  Hard to open another window  no menu options do this   Seems to always start in C  Windows System32  which is super useless  Weird scrolling  Sometimes it scrolls down really far into blank space  and you have to scroll up to where the window is actually populated    I love Cygwin  but the problem with Cygwin is that it runs different executables  The Cygwin Python is different than the Windows Python  they are linked against different libraries and stuff   Thanks

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Try Clink  It s awesome  especially if you are used to bash keybindings and features    As already pointed out - there is a similar question  Is there a better Windows Console Window

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Hard to copy and paste   Not true  Enable QuickEdit  either in the properties of the shortcut  or in the properties of the CMD window  right-click on the title bar   and you can mark text directly  Right-click copies marked text into the clipboard  When no text is marked  a right-click pastes text from the clipboard    Hard to resize the window   True  Console2  see below  does not have this limitation  Hard to open another window  no menu options do this    Not true  Use start cmd or define an alias if that s too much hassle   doskey nw start cmd  k     Seems to always start in C  Windows System32  which is super useless   Not true  Or rather  not true if you define a start directory in the properties of the shortcut    or by modifying the AutoRun registry value  Shift-right-click on a folder allows you to launch a command prompt in that folder  Weird scrolling  Sometimes it scrolls down really far into blank space  and you have to scroll up to where the window is actually populated  Never happened to me    An alternative to plain CMD is Console2  which uses CMD under the hood  but provides a lot more configuration options

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I am a fan of Cmder  a package including clink  conemu  msysgit  and some cosmetic enhancements   http   cmder net   https   github com cmderdev cmder  https   chocolatey org packages Cmder

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At the moment there are three realy powerfull cmd exe alternatives    cmder  PowerCmd  ComEmu  Terminal for Windows 10     cmder is an enhancement off ConEmu and Clink  All have features like Copy  amp  Paste  Window Resize per Mouse  Splitscreen  Tabs and a lot of other usefull features

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