How to go fullscreen in PowerShell

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

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Answer 2

Try typing the following command:

mode 300

after the window opens

Answer 3

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:

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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