command line - Is there a better Windows Console Window?

I find working on the command line in Windows
frustrating, primarily because the console window is wretched to use compared to
terminal applications on linux and OS X such as "rxvt", "xterm", or "Terminal". Major
complaints:

1. No
   standard copy/paste. You have to turn on "mark" mode and it's only available from a
   multi-level popup triggered by the (small) left hand corner button. Then copy and paste
   need to be invoked from the same
   menu




2. You can't arbitrarily resize the
   window by dragging, you need to set a preference (back to the multi-level popup) each
   time you want to resize a window




3. You
   can only make the window so big before horizontal scroll bars enter the picture.
   Horizontal scroll bars suck.




4. With the
   cmd.exe shell, you can't navigate to folders with \\netpath notation (UNC?), you need to
   map a network drive. This sucks when working on multiple machines that are going to have
   different drives
   mapped

Are
there any tricks or applications, (paid or otherwise), that address these
issue?

Answer

Sorry for the self-promotion, I'm the author
of another Console Emulator, not mentioned
here.

href="http://www.fosshub.com/ConEmu.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ConEmu
is opensource console emulator with tabs, which represents multiple consoles and simple
GUI applications as one customizable GUI
window.

Initially, the program was designed to
work with Far
Manager (my favorite shell replacement - file and archive management, command
history and completion, powerful editor). But ConEmu can be used with any other console
application or simple GUI tools (like PuTTY for example). ConEmu is a live project, open
to suggestions.

A brief excerpt from
the long list of
options:

• Latest versions
  of ConEmu may set up itself as href="https://superuser.com/a/509710/139371">default terminal for
  Windows


• Use any font installed in the system,
  or copied to a folder of the program (ttf, otf, fon,
  bdf)


• Run selected tabs as Administrator (Vista+) or as
  selected user


• Windows 7 Jump lists and Progress on
  taskbar


• Integration with href="http://www.dosbox.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">DosBox (useful in
  64bit systems to run DOS applications)


• Smooth resize,
  maximized and fullscreen window modes


• Scrollbar initially
  hidden, may be revealed by mouseover or checkbox in
  settings



• Optional settings (e.g. pallette) for
  selected applications


• User friendly text and block
  selection (from keyboard or mouse), copy, paste, text search in
  console


• ANSI X3.64 and Xterm 256
  color

Far Manager users
will acquire shell style drag-n-drop, thumbnails and tiles in panles, tabs for editors
and viewers, true colors and font styles
(italic/bold/underline).

PS. Far Manager
supports UNC paths (\\server\share\...)