microsoft / microsoft/vcpkg

bootstrapping vcpkg changes my console's font and window dimensions

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Description

**Describe the bug**
When bootstrapping vcpkg, the bootstrapping process changes the font and window dimensions of my console window.

**Environment**
Windows 11

**To Reproduce**
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. Have no existing CMake build directory
2. configure CMake with vcpkg toolchain file and no `vcpkg.exe` located in vcpkg submodule
3. vcpkg bootstraps and changes font and window dimensions during bootstrapping

If you have an existing build directory or an existing `vcpkg.exe` in the `vcpkg` submodule, then this does not occur. It only happens on the first bootstrap.

**Expected behavior**
You shouldn't be changing my console like this; this is a regression.
The first hash where this occurs is

commit 68f82debfc77cff60d921c520483f8032a997b15 (HEAD)
Author: toge
Date: Wed Mar 12 03:42:04 2025 +0900

[tinyxml2] update to 10.1.0 (#44292)

**Failure logs**
See attached video
[2025-04-04 09-33-02.zip](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/19607086/2025-04-04.09-33-02.zip)

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