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Reputation: 1950

How to go fullscreen in PowerShell

Is there a way of making powershell appear in fullscreen? Not only maximize it over the screen, but hiding the top-bar as well?

Also, since this is probably hard to do, how to maximize it according to current resolution?

Upvotes: 54

Views: 54620

Answers (7)

Ksuvi Khor
Ksuvi Khor

Reputation: 21

If it would be sufficient to merely maximize your PowerShell window, you can simply add -WindowStyle Maximized to your PowerShell shortcut:

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -noexit -WindowStyle Maximized

Upvotes: 2

dog
dog

Reputation: 1517

ALT + ENTER will full screen the powershell window in Windows 10

If this doesn't work right click the title bar > properties > options and make sure "Use Legacy console" is unchecked:

powershell

Upvotes: 35

maaw
maaw

Reputation: 1344

You can create a shortcut with 

"%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe " -NoExit -Command "mode 300"

The -NoExit option will keep the console open after running the startup command, and the -Command option of course runs the command on console startup. Besides, if you're not an administrator or you're running Windows 8 (hence apps run as not privileged by default) you can setup your shortcut to run Powershell as administrator always.

Source

Upvotes: 4

Hugh Chung
Hugh Chung

Reputation: 659

Try typing the following command:

mode 300

after the window opens

Upvotes: 65

user2447446
user2447446

Reputation: 119

The trick to using PS in a modern fashion is to use a different type of terminal program. I use ConEmu as it is open-source and free.

Not only will it allow you to run the screen maximised, you can have several tabs, clear-type fonts, custom colours et cetera.

Together with the free 'Source Code Pro' font, it makes for a very nice PS environment.

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 11

technaj
technaj

Reputation: 488

Right click the top bar and select properties. Then depending on your screen resolution select the appropriate size. (under the layout tab).

Upvotes: 36

Brandon Frohbieter
Brandon Frohbieter

Reputation: 18139

Display Options -> Fullscreen, or ALT+ENTER should enter fullscreen mode.

Upvotes: 11

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