Change command prompt colors
Time Required: 1 Minute, 5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 15 Minutes
Notes: This is a nice way to complement a theme that you may have.
Warnings: This is dangerous if you do not know what you are doing. I do not take responsibility for anything that you do to your computer that harms it or any files on it in any way.
Written By: Max Feinstein
How to do it:
- Navigate to Start > Run and click on Run.
- In the input field, type "regedit" and then press enter.
- Navigate to the following key in the registry by clicking on the +'s next to the folders in the left pane (see picture below).
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Command Processor
- Right-click a blank space in the right-hand pane and go to New > DWORD.
- Name the new DWORD (or edit the existing one) "DefaultColor".
- Double click the new DWORD.
- Note: The way that the value for the key works is that it uses a combination of letters and number to determine the color. It uses a two letter/number combination. The first number/letter determines the background color, and the second one determines the foreground/text color. A combination might look like F3 or A5. Please see the list below to see what all of the colors are.
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| 0 |
Black |
| 1 |
Blue |
| 2 |
Green |
| 3 |
Aqua |
| 4 |
Red |
| 5 |
Purple |
| 6 |
Yellow |
| 7 |
White |
| 8 |
Gray |
| 9 |
Light Blue |
| A |
Light Green |
| B |
Light Aqua |
| C |
Light Red |
| D |
Light Purple |
| E |
Light Yellow |
| F |
Bright White |
- Change the value of the DWORD to the color combination of your choice.
- Click OK.
- Close regedit.
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Regedit's left-hand pane.
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