How To Change The Colour Of Command Prompt?

Are you bored of the lame white text on black background in cmd? If yes then change the colour of the command prompt. You can change the colour of cmd in two ways, using GUI or using command. Follow these steps to change the colour of your command prompt.

1. Press windows+R to open run, type cmd in the Run text box and then press enter to open the command prompt.

2. To get an overview of what we can do with the color command, let’s check:

color  /?

3. Type color 1 to have blue text, color 4to have red text, color 6 to have yellow text etc. 

4. To change the colour of the text as well as the background, type color ca to have light green text on a light red background or any other combination. The first letter/number is the colour of the background and the second is the colour of the text.

Using GUI

1. First open the Command Prompt.

2. Right-click on the top and click on Properties.

3. Go to the Colors tab and select text or background and edit the color values.

4. Now click ok to apply changes.

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