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I expected to get to see the new console earlier in the preview, but I just was greeted by a completely different looking command prompt (not PowerShell) after installing Windows 10 without providing a Microsoft account or syncing settings.

How do I enable it and what are the default settings? Tips from How to reset the looks of the Command Prompt window, in Windows? didn't seem to work.

Top: legacy style with raster fonts and (80x25) – Bottom: new default with Consolas (120x30)

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Unticking the Use legacy console option in the menu or adding the following registry key should enable the new console:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console]
"ForceV2"=dword:00000001

Some more values with explanation:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console] – all DWORD values

  • Registry Key – Description

  • ForceV2 – 1 for new console features, 0 to disable new console.

  • LineSelection – 1 to enable line selection, 0 for block mode only.
  • FilterOnPaste – 1 to enable new paste behavior.
  • LineWrap – 1 to wrap text on resize operations.
  • CtrlKeyShortcutsDisabled – 0 to enable new key shortcuts, 1 to disable.
  • ExtendedEditKeys – 1 to enable a full set of keyboard selection keys, 0 to disable.
  • TrimLeadingZeros – 1 to trim leading zeroes on double-click selection, 0 to keep them.
  • WindowsAlpha – Adjust opacity between 30% and 100%: 0x4C to 0xFF -or- 76 to 255.
  • WordDelimiters – By default, only the space character is used when selecting text word-by-word with CTRL+SHIFT+ARROW keys. Set this REG_SZ value to contain all the characters you wish to treat as delimiters.

Source: Console Improvements in the Windows 10 Technical Preview

I haven't found a way to reset settings or export the default settings, so here is a screenshot showing all the options out of the box without synchronized settings:

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Edit: I thought I had too look for particular registry settings, but it looks like the different .lnk files contain the settings.

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