How to: Make Your Command Prompt Window Wider

Getting annoyed or tired dragging the scrollbar of your command prompt every time you can’t read everything because the window is not wide enough?  There’s an easy solution to that, you can make the command prompt window wider! But how? Some Windows users might not know this so I’ll show you how to make the window wider in just a few clicks!

Here’s How:

Open your command prompt. In Windows 7 just type “cmd” (without the strings) in the search bar of your start menu and hit the Enter key.  In older versions of Windows, you need to click Start, click Run and type in “cmd” (again without the strings) and hit Enter and the command prompt window will open.

Right click on the command prompt boarder and click Properties…

In the properties window, click on the Layout tab and change the Window Size to your preference (default width is 80).  You can also change the Window Position and Screen Buffer.  Click OK when you’re done.

Now after modifying you command prompt properties, your new settings will be automatically applied to your current command prompt window after clicking the OK button.