The built-in Command Prompt in Windows is actually pretty good to use and quite effective as well. But if you want something more fancy such as tab-based console, here is another one that looks pretty decent. Thanks to a friend who recommended in 4 Better Windows Console Tools Alternatives to Windows Built In Command Prompt post.
cmder is an open source project aiming to create a nice better console emulator over the built-in Command Prompt console in Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout. So from the first looking at it, it’s sexy.
But if you think sexy is the only thing from cmder, you would be mistaken. There are many features that make this console alternation not only sexy but useful, flexible, and effective.
It’s easy to launch another console session in another tab without another new Window session crowding up your desktop. And you can launch it in different Startup directory, as another user or as administrator, in split mode or as in a new Window session.
Speaking of Settings, right-click the top bar and go into the Settings window, there are numerous things you can do to make your console unique and useful to your needs. Size, positions, fonts, color, startup, shortcuts, you name it.
The best of all, because it’s an open source project, it’s free. And it’s portable too so that you can simply carry it with you in USB drive or in cloud with all your settings, alias and history.
There are 2 packages you can choose to use, the mini one that zipped in a 7MB compressed file, or a full version that comes with msysgit so that you will have all Unix commands ready in PATH. Normally for Windows users, the mini one should be good enough.
Overall, it’s looking good and you ought to give it a try if you are an often Command Prompt user.