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In my command window, I right click on the title bar and on the menu, "Copy
enter" and "Scroll" are grayed out. In properties there appears to be no way
to turn these things on. Does anyone know how? If I use an elevated command
window, there are scroll bars but "Copy enter" is grayed out there too.

Tyro
 
Tyro said:
In my command window, I right click on the title bar and on the menu,
"Copy enter" and "Scroll" are grayed out. In properties there appears to
be no way to turn these things on. Does anyone know how? If I use an
elevated command window, there are scroll bars but "Copy enter" is grayed
out there too.

Tyro
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You can't copy anything until you mark it !? (isn't this obvious?)
What did you think the command did ?
 
It put scroll bars on the command window.

Alto said:
For me scroll is sometimes active, sometimes greyed out.

I have never noticed it before - what is its function (apart from
scrolling :-) which it does not seem to do anyway!
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In my command window, I right click on the title bar and on the menu, "Copy
enter" and "Scroll" are grayed out. In properties there appears to be no way
to turn these things on. Does anyone know how? If I use an elevated command
window, there are scroll bars but "Copy enter" is grayed out there too.
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Tyro
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Copy should become highlighted once you've selected something in the
window. You have to choose "Mark" before you can select anything in
that window, however. Pretty weird...

Scroll should become highlighted when you overfill the window with
content. That is, when there's been enough activity to have caused
older data to scroll off the top of the window.

BTW, the command is "Copy", not "Copy Enter". Enter is shown to remind
you that it is the keyboard shortcut for Copy (that is true only in the
command window, AFAIK).
 
That is to say. If I bring up a command window, enter a command and it
produces 10,000 lines of output, I see only the last screen and I cannot
scroll to the first screen. In elevated mode, I can scroll through all
10,000 lines.

Tyro
 
Scroll is not available at all. No scroll bars appear unless the command
window is elevated. Yes, I know all about copy. I've used Dos for over 24
years.
I just got carried away with what was grayed out.
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From your posts, I see you as knowledgeable, so I was confused by the
"Copy Enter" thing. I should have just realized it was a slip. I guess
that was *my* getting carried away :-)

Have you overfilled a command window? Like trying dir inside C:\Windows
or typing a huge text file... If you do that & don't get scroll bars,
I'm mystified. I can even scroll with my mouse wheel.

OTOH, I've never clicked on scroll before reading your post, and much
to my (not) surprise, it looks like it doesn't do anything. Ever...
 
If you are logged on as an administrative user and invoke a command window
with cmd, you get scroll bars. If you are a standard user you do not get
scroll bars. I have two accounts, admin and standard. I almost always use my
standard account so I don't get scroll in a command window.

Tyro
 
For me scroll is sometimes active, sometimes greyed out.

I have never noticed it before - what is its function (apart from
scrolling :-) which it does not seem to do anyway!
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When I select "Scroll" from the edit menu my title bar changes from:-

Administrator: C:\Windows\Sytem32\cms.exe

to

ScrollAdministrator: C:\Windows\Sytem32\cms.exe

I can then use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the
display in the window instead of using the vertical scroll bar.

Commands cannot be entered at the prompt (key presses give a beep)
until "Enter" is pressed at which time the up and down arrows revert
to scrolling throught the command history.
 
OTOH, I've never clicked on scroll before reading your post, and much to my
(not) surprise, it looks like it doesn't do anything. Ever...
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I just read the post on this by Stubbo of Oz. All is now clear.

I discovered that the ways out of scroll mode seem to be pressing Esc
or ^C. Clicking on Scroll again doesn't do that.

BTW, right clicking on the inside of the cmd window brings up the edit
menu directly. I've always done it that way, and I only learned or
maybe relearned (or not) about the title bar from this thread.
 
Tried that. Still no scroll.

Tyro

Alpha said:
I don't think it is related to the admin/standard as such. it is just that
your options for each kind of user are set differently. Try
Properties->Layout
and adjust the screeb buffer size to be much bigger than that the Window
size.
I think it will give you scroll bars then.
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The menu comes up with right click in the command window if you're running
as an admin account or running an elevated command window. If you're running
as a standard account the menu does not - you have to right click the title
bar.

Tyro
 
If you issue a command that produces more lines of output than the window
can hold, the lines will scroll off the screen. You have to use scroll to
review all of the output.

Tyro
 
Found that by making the Screen Buffer Size width 1 character more than the
Window Size width produces a horizontal scroll bar. Also making the Screen
Buffer Size height 1 line more than the Window Size height produces a
vertical scroll bar.

Tyro
 
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