PowerShell and CMD – Changing Font

.1. Bring up the start menu, type cmd, and hit Enter;

Type powershell instead.

.2. Launch the command prompt via a shortcut;

Change the shortcut's target.

.3. Bring up the command prompt in a third party tool (such as Launchy), or;

IIRC, Launchy just uses shortcuts from Start Menu. Some other tools are hardcoded to run cmd.exe.

.4. Issue some commands in Windows' Run tool (Win+R), which launches the prompt, issues the command and then returns

"Run" does not open a shell, cmd or any other, unless you specifically asked for it by typing its name. It runs the given program directly (AFAIK, by using ShellExcuteEx()).

The black window is a Windows Console. It does not mean there's cmd.exe running inside; it could have any console program. (Exactly the same is with Unix terminals; they could have any program running, not necessarily a shell.)

That said, some programs might still honor the %COMSPEC% environment variable.

download and install this version of Fixedsys

http://host-a.net/u/mrbubl3s/fixedsys.ttf

The one that ships with windows is a .fon type and the console is VERY picky about what it will take. That is the whole reason it was made so difficult to change the fonts available in the terminal in the first place. The file form the download is a .ttf (TrueTypeFont) and will work. Also, there is no need to restart before checking to see if console has accepted the font. Just go to properties and check right away after editing the registry.