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Change command prompt colors

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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.
  • 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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