I'm generally speaking a Windows user and happy to be so. However, one of the grievences I have is how annoying the command prompt can be. Doing development with Django I tend to use it more than I had previously.

Anyway, here are a few steps I took to make it a bit easier to use... 

1. Change width

Open the command prompt and right click on it in the task bar. Then select properties, under the layout tab you can change the 'window' and the 'buffer' size. I've set the width on them both to 120. Seems to be plenty for most situations. When you click ok to save make sure you select 'Save properties for future windows with the same title'

1. Customise the 'prompt'

The prompt can get very long as it displays the full path rather than just the current folder. You can re-format it as shown in this post.