Windows "cmd" Replacements [closed]

Solution 1:

ColorConsole is my 'Windows “cmd” replacement' of choice (actually it's just a GUI wrapper around cmd.exe, not a replacement in the strict sense).

Features:

Favorites commands

Export to HTML and RTF

Copy, Paste, Cut, etc.

Change font style and color

Tabbed Interface with multi cmd.exe

Fast folder switch

And of course it is resizeable to your likings :)

ColorConsole is freeware and portable.

Solution 2:

ConEmu is an opensource console emulator with tabs, which represents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window.

Initially, the program was designed to work with Far Manager (my favorite shell replacement - file and archive management, command history and completion, powerful editor). But ConEmu can be used with any other console application or simple GUI tools (like PuTTY for example). ConEmu is a live project, open to suggestions.

A brief excerpt from the long list of options:

• Use any font installed in the system, or copied to a folder of the program (ttf, otf, fon, bdf)
• Run selected tabs as Administrator (Windows Vista or later) or as selected user
• Windows 7 Jump lists and Progress on taskbar
• Integration with DosBox (useful on 64-bit systems to run DOS applications)
• Smooth resize, maximized and full screen window modes
• Scrollbar initially hidden, may be revealed by mouseover or checkbox in settings
• Optional settings (e.g. palette) for selected applications
• User friendly text and block selection (from keyboard or mouse), copy, paste, text search in console
• ANSI X3.64 and Xterm 256 color
• In last alpha, build (120802), a split-screen feature was added (first try, may be buggy)

Far Manager users will acquire shell style drag-n-drop, thumbnails and tiles in panels, tabs for editors and viewers, true colors and font styles (italic/bold/underline).

_{(Sorry for the self-promotion, I'm the author of another free and open source Console Emulator, not mentioned here.)}

Solution 3:

console2 is an open-source console window enhancement.

Note that it's not technically a replacement for cmd.exe as it still uses it in the back to do the real work. Actually it can be configured to use other shells such as bash or powershell.