Windows – How do you change the default powershell font style

.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.

To change the codepage for the console only, do the following:

1. Start -> Run -> regedit
2. Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\Autorun]
3. Change the value to @chcp 65001>nul

If Autorun is not present, you can add a New String