Resize command prompt through commands

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I want to resize the command prompt window in a batch file  is it possible to set a height and width through something I can just add in the batch file

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mode con cols  whatever you want  lines  whatever you want     The unit is the number of characters that fit in the command prompt  eg   mode con cols 80 lines 100   will make the command prompt 80 ASCII chars of width and 100 of height

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If you want to run a  bat file in full screen  right click on the  example bat  and click create shortcut  then right click on the shortcut and click properties  then click layout  in layout you can adjust your file to the screen manually  however you can only run it this way if you use the shortcut  You can also change font size by clicking font instead of layout  select lucida and adjust the font size then click apply

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Most people will tell you to run this command   mode con cols 80 lines 100   but you should just try typing   MODE 1000   as a line in your batch file or cmd prompt

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You can use  start  max  your batch  it will fill the screen with the program it oppose to  min

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Simply type  MODE  width   height    Example   MODE 14 1   That is the smallest size possible   MODE 1000 1000   is the largest possible  although it probably won t even fit your screen  If you want to minimize it  type  start  min  yourbatchfile cmd    and of course  to maximaze   start  max  yourbatchfile cmd    I am currently working on doing this from the same batch files so that you don t have to have two or start it with cmd  of course  there are shortcuts  but I m gonna try to figure it out

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Although the answers given here can be used to temporarily change window size  they don t seem to affect font size  at least not on my PC   I have an alternative way  I don t know if this what you re looking for but if you want to make changes automatically permanently to Console font window size  you can always do a script that edits the registry   HKEY CURRENT USER Console HKEY CURRENT USER Console   SystemRoot   system32 cmd exe HKEY CURRENT USER Console   SystemRoot   system32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0 powershell exe   Those keys deal with the consoles that come up when your run a script or press shift and select  open command prompt here   The Command Prompt entry in your start menu does not use the registry to store it s preferences but stores the prefs in the shortcut itself   I have a monitor that I can run in 720p native or 1440p supersampling  I needed a quick way to change my console s font window size  so I made these scripts  These scripts do two things   1  change the font window sizes in the registry and  2  swap out the shortcuts in the Start menu with ones that have a different window and font size  I basically made two sets of copies of the Command Prompt and Power Shell shortcuts and stored them in Documents  One set of shortcuts was configured with Consolas font size at 16 for my monitor is in 720p  called it  Command Prompt 720pRes lnk   and another version of the same shortcut was configure with font size at 36  called it  Command Prompt HighRes lnk    The script will copy from the set I want to use to overwrite the Start menu one   console-1440p cmd     Assign New Window and Font Size for Windows Command Prompt set CMDpNewFont 00240000 set CMDpNewWindowSize 000f0078 set commandPromptLinkFlag highRes       Make temporary  reg file to resize command console   gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00  gt  gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO   gt  gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO  HKEY CURRENT USER Console   gt  gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO  WindowSize  dword  CMDpNewWindowSize   gt  gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO  FontSize  dword  CMDpNewFont   gt  gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO   gt  gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO  HKEY CURRENT USER Console   SystemRoot   system32 cmd exe   gt  gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO  WindowSize  dword  CMDpNewWindowSize   gt  gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO  FontSize  dword  CMDpNewFont   gt  gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO   gt  gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO  HKEY CURRENT USER Console   SystemRoot   system32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0 powershell exe   gt  gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO  WindowSize  dword  CMDpNewWindowSize   gt  gt  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg ECHO  FontSize  dword  CMDpNewFont      Merge and delete consoleSIZEchanger reg REGEDIT  S  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg  del  temp  consoleSIZEchanger reg     Copy Preconfigured Command Prompt PowerShell shortcuts to Pinned Start Menu  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Modify cmd exe properties using the command prompt Pretty much has what you re asking for  More on the topic  mode con  cols 160 lines 78 should achieve what you want  Change 160 and 78 to your values

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I know  that s a 8 years old question  but that can still happen today   Powershell ca be used for that  An example is shown here  The shortest command for the cmd is   powershell -command   amp   get-host  ui rawui windowsize   width 100 height 55       Set your wanted window size to the width and hight vars  However  this short line has two limitations    Be sure that the window size is not larger than the predefined buffer sizes  Otherwise there occur an error message  Depending on the system  loading and processing of Powershell takes 2   4 seconds  Sometimes this is a long time to wait     To avoid that  in the command below the buffer size is defined  In addition  the process runs parallel to the other following cmd commands   start  b powershell -command   amp   w  get-host  ui rawui  w buffersize   width 177 height 999   w windowsize   width 155 height 55       The width and height values to the buffersize object  here 177 and 999  must be bigger or equal to the window size values

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Actually  there s a much simpler way to do this  If you just open the batch file  click on the window  and then click  properties   and then to  layout   and scroll down to  Window Size   you can edit it from there  It will also stay that way every time you open that specific batch file  so it s pretty handy

[batch-file] Resize command prompt through commands

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