Change the colors in the command prompt

[Venator]

Here is a trick totally useless but very nice! It will allow you to change the background color and text in your windows DOS command prompt (accessible via Start> Programs> Accessories> Command Prompt).

Open regedit (Start menu, Run ... and type regedit)
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Command Processor
Edit DWORD Value DefaultColor by a hexadecimal value

[Jimmy24]

The default value is 0 (white text on black background). Use the color codes below to change the default colors.

• 0 = Black
• 1 = blue
• 2 = green
• 3 = cyan
• 4 = red
• 5 = magenta
• 6 = yellow
• 7 = light gray
• 8 = gray
• 9 = light blue
• A = light green
• B = Light Cyan
• C = light red
• D = magenta
• E = Light yellow
• F = white highlight

The colors are expressed by a hexadecimal number with two digits. The first is the background color and the second to the text color. For example, 1F will highlight white text on a blue background.