Running command prompt in full screen in windows vista or later version of windows...

Today I am going to write about a issue in Microsoft Window's later versions regarding the DOS or command prompt. After Windows XP Microsoft Windows does not have DOS anymore. It only consists of command prompt which is shortly called command or just cmd. You can open this by typing cmd at start menu in Windows Vista or Windows 7. But the main issue people might talk about this is the full screen mode of this cmd.exe program. This is mainly useful for program if they can use cmd in full screen mode. So, here I m going to talk about how you can actually just make it like full screen even though the windows does not support it.

The conventional way of making full screen is by pressing Alt+Enter. But when you do that to cmd in Vista or 7, you will get this message saying that "The system does not support the fullscreen mode." So, lets try to get something even though it does not allow us to do that.

 Follow the steps that you see below and please comment if it is working for you or if this helps.


It's rather odd but I've verified that it works.

• Click Start and type CMD, but don't hit enter or click on cmd.exe.
• Right-click cmd.exe above and choose Run as administrator.
• Respond to the UAC prompt.
• In the command prompt enter WMIC--you'll get a different prompt for Windows Management Instrumentation Control (but you're not going to actually DO anything with WMI).
• Click the normal maximize button at top right. The Command Prompt window will fill the screen.
• Enter EXIT to exit WMIC.
• Right-click the Command Prompt's title bar, choose Properties, click OK.
• Enter EXIT to exit the Command Prompt.

From now on Command Prompt will open at a size that fills the screen. It accomplishes this by as many rows and columns of characters as necessary to fill the screen. If that's not the kind of full-screen you wanted, you can put Command Prompt back to normal thus:

• Right-click its and choose Properties.
• Click the Layout tab
• Set Screen Buffer Size's Width to 80
• Set Window Size Width to 80
• Set Window Size Height to 25
• Click OK

I'm guessing that what you really want is to have the command prompt literally fill the screen without changing its 80x25 layout. In XP you can toggle this mode by pressing Alt+Enter. As I mentioned earlier, doing that in Vista or 7 just gets you a error message. And it's true; the Windows Vista or Windows 7 Display Driver Model (WDDM) precludes support of the necessary video mode.
There is a kind of solution, and it's even recommended by Microsoft.They suggest replacing the driver for your graphics card with the equivalent XP video driver. You'll lose the ability to run Vista's spiffy Aero interface if you do so, but you'll gain back the ability to run full-screen DOS programs. But that may not be what you would really want to happen...

Thank you for reading this. Hope this helps. If you need more help or suggest something for me or need something then please email me at jack_store@rocketmail.com. I will try to reply you before 24 hours.