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Text Based Console Part 2 - An Overview

**Let go ahead and fire up PowerShell, right click, click properties. **

In the last lecture I demonstrated Command History and Quick edit mode. As you can see by default all these options have been checked, I won’t go over each option. If you want to know more checkout the documentation, I have descriptions for each option.

Font

  • Font size – As you can see whenever I make changes in the Font size these changes are reflected in the preview windows.

So why is it important to choose the right **Font size? **PowerShell could display your information to the right or to the bottom of your desktop. If you choose the wrong font size PowerShell could display your information past the desktop and you may not see that information.

I chose a font size of 16, and I like Lucida Console font and I also choose bold fonts , which is better for presentation purposes. You can choose whatever font you like, it’s your choice.

Layout – Allows you to choose the screen buffer size, windows size and window position.

  • Screen Buffer Size (changes memory allocated to desktop)

Width (should match Width on the Windows size

Height – Set to about 3000. Which is compatible with most monitors.

**Colors - **Here you can choose your **text **and background colors (We chose the default values)

  • The easiest way to configure color is to first choose a category. Here you can see that we have selected “Screen Background”. You can select your color Values

Or you can come down here to the color bar, then choose whatever you like. You can see that this will be reflected in the preview windows.

Demonstrate Tab completion

  • Type get-Pro, then press the Tab key. As you can see, TAB completion completed the command.
  • Type get-Even, then press the TAB key.

PowerShell cycles through commands.

Pressing the Tab moves through the command…