How to change background and foreground colour of the text in Command Prompt

Posted on 11 June 2009

Command Prompt, basically known as cmd. By default Command prompt have a black and white screen. Have you ever wish to change the black and white look of Command prompt (cmd)? Ya its possible, you can change the black and white Color to our own favorite choice. To do so you have 2 alternative method of changing the Command Prompt Color.

Method 1.) By Registry Editor:

Open the Registery Editor (Start > Run > Regedit) and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor. Locate to DWORD value “DefaultColour“. In the right pane, modify the “DefaultColour” value, putting in a hexadecimal number say “E4″. The first digit of this value determines the background colour, and the second digit determines the foreground colour of the text.

Preview:

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In this case, ‘E’ corresponds to Light yellow colour, and ’4′ corresponds to Red The result in command prompt window with red text on yellow background. Similarly you can set your own choice  according to this table:

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Method 2.) By TuneUp Utilities:

1.) Open TuneUp Utilities > Customize Windows > TuneUp System Control > Navigate to, Administration > System > Command Prompt > Advance.

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2.) Choose any color of your choice & Press Apply.

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