Fun box: 4 Better Windows Console Tools Alternatives to Windows Built In Command Prompt

4 Better Windows Console Tools Alternatives to Windows Built In Command Prompt

A lot of times, the built in Command Prompt may suite your occasional needs to run command lines. But if you are a windows console fan and want much more than what Windows Command Prompt offers, it’s time to look around for the better alternatives.
If that’s the case, here are 4 much 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.

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

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 switch right from the toolbar.
etc.

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 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.