Following steps:

• Open Cmd or PoweShell in Windows 8.
• Type in wmic,
• Maximize
• Type in exit (just once)
• Start working in full screen

..led me to work in fullscreen mode in Windows shells (CMD/PS).

My question is, why doesn't tech guys provide full-screen support right away (on maximize or via shortcut (Alt+Enter))? Is there any legacy constraint which makes it so impossible to implement or its just another "we think you don't need it, therefore its by design" kind of reas

Hi McCoy,

I think this would a nice feature specially for the core server :-D

What i use to get the PS in "Fullscreen" is the command "mode 300" which does the same as you wmic. :-)

Greetings Malte

• Proposed as answer by WizendMicrosoft community contributor Monday, May 13, 2013 3:17 PM
• Marked as answer by Yan Li_Microsoft community contributor, Moderator Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:47 AM

 command "mode 300"

Works, great!

Thx, wizend

• Edited by WizendMicrosoft community contributor Monday, May 13, 2013 3:18 PM

• Marked as answer by Yan Li_Microsoft community contributor, Moderator Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:48 AM

on my (dual monitor) system, that command makes the window a bit too wide, pushing the vertical scroll bar and a bit of the text area onto the second monitor. If I move the window there before the mode 300 command, it does a better job, but in one case it always left the prompt scrolled off the bottom. Then if I move it back to the primary monitor it seems to fill the available space completely. Definitely has potential, but needs a bit of playing arou

the full MODE command syntax it:

    mode con[:] [cols=c] [lines=n]

mode 300 would seem to set the number of columns to 300 and the number of lines to the available height of the screen. I'm guessing that the 300 was chosen to be large enough so that it would be truncated to the width of the screen, as mode 400 appears to gives the same result. still not sure why it assumes the width of the screen is a few columns wider than it really is...

"we think you don't need it, therefore its by design"

You got that right!

Even small utilities like PuTTY provides maximizing support on Windows. Do we really need to even ask as if its some kind of a feature! and its being what.. 18-20 years now! And yet we are hopeless that they will ever spare few hours to improve Windows CLI..

The way I see it, its like one of those final/advanced assignments of "Introduction to Computing" course: "Flush and repaint the display buffer". Well technically, one can hook HDC and get done with it with more elegance.

Unless its coming from one of those Microsoft partners, they don't care what we think! Apparently there is no room for CLI in Windows re-imagined campaign.  So don't get your hopes too high.

• Edited by mewzical Sunday, May 19, 2013 9:41 PM