4 Better Windows Console Tools Alternative to Windows Built-In Command Prompt

13

A lot of times, the built-in Command Prompt may suit your occasional needs to run command lines. But if you are a windows console fan and want much more than what Windows Command Prompt has to offer, it’s time to look around for the better alternatives.

If that’s the case, here are 4 better alternatives that have fantastic improvements over to Windows terminal experience.

Console

Console is a free Windows console enhancement tool that has some of the features that the Command Prompt lacks, such as multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color key transparency, configurable font, different window styles, etc.. You can also increase the buffer size to cache much more lines of commands and results than you need, which is a much nicer feature to have.

2012 05 18 1644 thumb - 4 Better Windows Console Tools Alternative to Windows Built-In Command Prompt

You can also check out our detailed review of Console here.

PowerCmd

PowerCmd streamlines the Command Prompt with an easy-to-use GUI interface with nice features including:

  • Tab-based console
  • Enhanced text editing capabilities
  • Bookmarks to easily move between them
  • Filtered command prompt history
  • Automatically save the output of the console
  • Search to find anything in the console
  • Visible AutoCompletion.
  • Display command prompt environment variables

image thumb68 - 4 Better Windows Console Tools Alternative to Windows Built-In Command Prompt

You can also check out our review of PowerCmd here.

ColorConsole

ColorConsole not only brings color to the dull black white world of windows console but also adds a few more useful features like:

  • Store your favorite command
  • Export the output in HTML and RTF format
  • Make Copy, Paste super easy
  • Tab-based console
  • Much faster folder switches right from the toolbar.
  • etc.

image thumb14 - 4 Better Windows Console Tools Alternative to Windows Built-In Command Prompt

You can also check out our review of ColorConsole here.

ConEmu

ConEmu is a Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.

  • Windows 7 Jump List and Progress on the taskbar.
  • Easily run old Dos Applications in Windows 7.
  • Thumbnails and tiles in Far Manager
  • using normal/bold/italic fonts for different parts of the console simultaneously
  • Highly customizable with a lot of settings to customize.
  • Very easy to launch as administrator.
  • etc.

ConEmu thumb - 4 Better Windows Console Tools Alternative to Windows Built-In Command Prompt

Other alternatives to share?

If you have used any good Windows Command Prompt alternatives, please feel free share them in the comment.

13 COMMENTS

    • http://cmder.net/ is the website to download the program from and the git repo is here: https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder

      Just found it, I’m liking it so far. You can still drag and drop into the window unlike PowerCMD (which is a 30 day trial and costs $39.99 normally). The interface looks a lot like cmd.exe in the sense that it doesn’t add large extra buttons and toolbars and is just the console with a few small well laid out icons. It also allows the user to copy and paste into the Console, it has tabs (these show on the bottom of the window by default, fyi), and it has a wide range of options to customize. I’ll update this in case there’s something odd I find but I think I might have found my Windows version to the Console.

      • I downloaded cmder and am using it now. Unlike other console tools, it displays text from my native langauge(telugu) in the prompt. Cool feature.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here