Hi everyone.

In the script I wrote to run MultiMail on my Windows 11 system, I
noticed I had to keep running the script as admin to get it to resize
the window. I'm using cmd.exe.

I wound up asking Google and here is what Gemini told me:

"Even if you launch your batch file explicitly using cmd.exe, Windows
11 still intercepts the execution and forces it to open inside the
new modern app called Windows Terminal.

Because Windows Terminal acts as a wrapper around cmd.exe, legacy
cmd.exe sizing controls (like mode con) are blocked unless the
application runs with full Administrator privileges."

However, it offered me several solutions and I chose this one:

"You can globally configure Windows 11 to stop routing standalone
command line script files into the new Windows Terminal app. Doing so
lets cmd.exe rely on its original legacy background app
(conhost.exe), restoring the functionality of your existing mode con
line.

1. Press the Windows Key, type Terminal, and launch the app.

2. Click the down-arrow icon on the top tab bar and open Settings.

3. Click the Startup menu category on the left sidebar.

4. Look for the setting titled "Default terminal application" or
"Launch-type for stand-alone scripts".

5. Change the selection from Windows Terminal or Let Windows decide
over to Windows Console Host.

Once you save those preferences, any standard user executing a batch
file can resize the window using standard mode con variables."

This solution is working well so far for me. Thought I'd share this.

-- Sean


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On 12 Aug 26 16:46:48, Digimaus said the following to All:

Once you save those preferences, any standard user executing a batch
file can resize the window using standard mode con variables."

This solution is working well so far for me. Thought I'd share this.

I really dislike what Microsoft did to Cmd... They took a simple shell that has worked flawlessly for decades and crapified it.

Atreyu

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Atreyu wrote to Digimaus:

I really dislike what Microsoft did to Cmd... They took a simple shell
that
has worked flawlessly for decades and crapified it.

Pretty much, yeah. However, after I did that, things started to work
right.

-- digi

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