September 2006

Using Consolas as the Windows console font

If you don’t like the font choices (or lack thereof) in Windows console, or want Consolas (a new font available by installing IE7 or Windows Vista) as your console font, you can add it as an option by going to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\ CurrentVersion\TrueTypeFont. Scott Hanselman shows you how in this blog post. Question for the Windows […]

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Windows Vista and telnet

Fired up the console (command prompt) in Windows Vista and can’t telnet to smtp or use telnet at all for that matter? Just noticed this on Windows Vista RC1 – Telnet is not installed by default… and the HyperTerminal app is history as well. To add Telnet, go to Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn […]

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