ConEmu is a Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.

ConEmu starts a console program in a hidden console window, and provides an alternative customizable GUI window with various features:

• smooth and friendly window resizing;
• tabs for editors, viewers, panels and consoles;
• run simple GUI apps like PuTTY in tabs;
• Windows 7 Jump Lists and Progress on Taskbar buttons;
• easily run old DOS applications (games) in Windows 7 or 64-bit OS;
• thumbnails and tiles in Far Manager;
• normal, maximized and full screen graphical window modes;
• window font anti-aliasing: standard, ClearType, disabled;
• window fonts: family, height, width, bold, italic, etc.;
• Chinese verions of Windows supported;
• using normal/bold/italic fonts for different parts of the console simultaneously;
• using 24-bit colors in Far Manager 3.x;
• ANSI X3.64 and Xterm 256 colors;
• cursor: standard console (horizontal) or GUI (vertical);
• optional per-application settings (e.g. palette);
• vertical console buffer scrolling using the keyboard (BufferHeight mode);
• show full output (1K+ lines) of last command in Far Manager's editor/viewer;
• customizable Far Manager right click behaviour (long click opens context menu);
• drag and drop (explorer style) of files and folders in Far Manager;
• limited support of BDF fonts;
• user friendly text and block selection;
• transparency and desktop mode;
• customizable starting tabs;
• configurable and clickable status bar;