Is there a way to get rid of window frames?

Question

I don't need a general solution, I just want to get rid of the window frame for PowerShell. For example, this is how my desktop looks now:

And here is what I ideally want:

But under the case that this is impossible, I'll settle for

I assume this will require some pretty funky registry edits or something, or maybe a third-party powershell client. I'm fine with either. Anyone got any ideas?

Can you modify `powershell.exe` to this behavior, no, you can integrate power shell console in your own console application where you have complete control over the GUI. — Ramhound, Jan 29 '16 at 01:15
How easy would it be to write a console app? I have a lot of programming experience but I never though of this — pretzlstyle, Jan 29 '16 at 01:39
Now now, let's not jump to "make it yourself" yet. See this: http://superuser.com/questions/38687/windows-program-to-remove-titlebar-frame-etc-from-a-window for an AHK script that may be useful to you. — oldmud0, Jan 29 '16 at 02:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 01 '16 at 02:19

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Take a look at ConEmu. In particular experiment with these settings:

Appearance / Hide caption always
Appearance / Scrollbar
Appearance / Frame width
Tab bar / Don't show
Status bar / Show status bar (off)

The screenshot below is what I managed to do. Ignore the icon at the upper right; that is from something else.

answered Feb 01 '16 at 02:19

dangph

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This is exactly what I want, but I doubt this will start at startup and have the changes persist, correct? Also, does it provide functionality to be able to move a window despite having no title bar? – pretzlstyle Feb 01 '16 at 04:52
@jphollowed, this is not the powershell.exe console. It is its own thing. Yes, its settings will persist. I don't know about moving. You might have to leave the title bar or tab bar on. Anyway, you can experiment yourself. – dangph Feb 01 '16 at 05:17
Well I've tried it out and I quite like it, but I turned off the title bar and everything and now I cannot get back to the settings or move the window or anything! Would you happen to know some shortcuts to open the menus? – pretzlstyle Feb 01 '16 at 05:24
@jphollowed, the keyboard shortcuts are [here](http://conemu.github.io/en/KeyboardShortcuts.html). Main web site [here](http://conemu.github.io/). Win+Alt+P to show the settings. You can drag the window with Ctrl+Alt+LeftMouseButton. – dangph Feb 01 '16 at 05:31
@dangh thank you very much, I've got it all set up, this is perfect – pretzlstyle Feb 01 '16 at 05:46
@jphollowed, okay, great :) Please upvote this answer and select it as the accepted answer. – dangph Feb 01 '16 at 06:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 23 '18 at 18:49

for those who have not found a solution yet ,

in your .bat script / cmd environment, you can use an external function called nircmd which includes a whole lot of other features like transparency etc,& Can be called by :

title hello world
nircmd.exe win -style title "hello world" 0x00C00000

nircmd can be downloaded from http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 07 '20 at 03:03

For those of you familiar with AutoHotKey, here's the script I used to achieve precisely the same effect as the first screenshot:

;Hide borders, title bar, menu bar and vertical scroll
LWin & LButton::
WinSet, Style, -0xC40000, A
WinSet, Style, +0x40000000, A
WinSet, Style, +0x80000000, A
WinSet, Style, -0x200000, A
Return

;Show borders, title bar, menu bar and vertical scroll
LWin & RButton::
WinSet, Style, +0xC40000, A
WinSet, Style, -0x40000000, A
WinSet, Style, -0x80000000, A
WinSet, Style, +0x200000, A
Return

Is there a way to get rid of window frames?

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