Quincy Center for Technical Education
Computer Technology Department

Buffers

To change the command history settings

1. Open a command prompt window.
2. Right-click the title bar, and then click Defaults.
3. On the Options tab, under Command History, specify a buffer size, and then specify the number of buffers to use.

Notes

• To open a Command Prompt window, click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
• Changing the buffer size changes the number of commands a buffer can store. Changing the number of buffers changes the number of processes that can have distinct history buffers. Increasing the number or size of buffers uses more memory.
• To eliminate the listing of duplicate commands in command history, select the Discard Old Duplicates check box.
• To change the command history settings for the current command prompt window only, follow the steps above except, in step 2, click Properties to display a command prompt properties dialog box.