2) I installed it anyway and found that there are Unix-like commands that it will not execute, and it hangs on vom.exe

3) And then my Quick Launch icons disappeared!!

4) I restored my system to before PowerCmd and everything seems OK again.

cmd.exe will let you paste. Click on the system icon in the title bar (the left one, the little black C:\ icon), a system menu appears and in it is “Edit”. Click that, a submenu appears with Paste. Clicking Mark lets you drag the mouse to enclose a rectangular area then hit enter to copy to the clipboard. (Sorry if you already know all that.)

Is it easy? Not really. Is it consistent with Windows standard ^C ^V? No. But at least it can be done. Thought you might want to know that.

Then again there’s the QuickEdit option – it allows you to use the mouse to click/drag to select an area, hit enter to copy, and the right-click to paste. (Pretty much like PuTTY, for whoever mentioned that.) (I typically don’t use it a mistaken right-click can paste a bunch of commands with embedded carriage returns/enters that cause cmd.exe to execute them.) QuickEdit is found in the Properties menu from the system menu.

Though for those tired of white on black console windows, you can (and I do) change the default colors. I use black text on gray window for an easier-on-the-eyes view.

And you can make it bigger than the default 25×80 – I use 132×50 to see more of what I’m working on.

The font can be changed to something readable – Lucida Console is nice for me.

All these can be reached by accessing the Properties menu item from the system menu (that left title bar icon again).

(Then again, there’s the Eshell package in Emacs that’s very cool, if you use the Windows version GNU Emacs.)

As for this program, I’m kicking myself – I made a reminder to get it at home and didn’t check my reminders last night. I use the command prompt all the time as a software developer, and use Marko B’s “Console” for a prettier interface.

Maybe someone will find this information useful and not dismiss the console window as unusable. It isn’t perfect, or *nix-like, but it’s usable and a lot better than it was in the early days. Some of the FOR command options that came with 2000 or XP are interesting. And it has command- and directory- completion! (Just set it in the registry to be the TAB key and it’s a lot more *nix-like).

Reading some of the Help is also enlightening – Start->Help, search for CMD, look at the related topics link at the bottom.

*No* , Powercmd doesn’t change or replace cmd.exe.

Use a five (or ten) thumb (point) rating and thus eliminate the ability to vote an actual up or down. Instead, the vote will be a quality rating and more useful for information and not just for entertainment or comments bickering.

I live in the command line, as I am a “builder”, those that need to know what I do, will understand. :)

As for the comparison to Console, I tried a beta version 2 that always crashed under Vista, so I had to scrap it, and well, version 1 didn’t allow tabs, that I was able to see.

This giveaway, seems awesome so far, and it even runs PowerShell just fine as a tab.
I just love the comments from those that download stuff they don’t understand. Those are the ones driving the thumb ratings down.

Anyways, great software GAOTD!

When you do remember to use the TAB key, it makes changing through directories much easier.