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Change background color of command prompt

Open the command prompt
Click on the "C:\" icon beside "Command Prompt" on the title bar.
Click on Default and then the Colors tab.

pizzafiend
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Properties also will do the same thing. lol. What a simple tweak. Good looking out (=
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Sphyenx
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really! really...?!?

wtf man
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You can also change the color of the text and background by using the color command inside of DOS. Use color /? to see all options

AtomicPages
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color command works

right click on toolbar & properties also works

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Ravi Rathour
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Do open run>cmd>ok
type color 06
and see what happens .
You can also tries [01] [02] [fc] [cd] ... and any combination like 0 to 6 or a to f

plz comment
[email]KumarUtkarsh@

KumarUtkarsh
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thanx.kumar....it really works

Teddy112
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Come on! Its something every computer user (If atleast advanced enough to use CMD) will check out themself.....

Captain Jake
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Do open run>cmd>ok type color 06 and see what happens . You can also tries [01] [02] [fc] [cd] ... and any combination like 0 to 6 or a to f

plz comment [email]KumarUtkarsh@


Judging by this thread, you should have posted that as a thread itself, i was cool...

Captain Jake
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great post

vatikadaffodil
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In any case thanks for sharing.

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This article has been dead for over three months

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