Re: Restore normal text color in windows console

You should take a look at the color command:

C:\test>color /?
Sets the default console foreground and background colors.

COLOR [attr]

  attr        Specifies color attribute of console output

Color attributes are specified by TWO hex digits -- the first
corresponds to the background; the second the foreground.  Each digit
can be any of the following values:

    0 = Black       8 = Gray
    1 = Blue        9 = Light Blue
    2 = Green       A = Light Green
    3 = Aqua        B = Light Aqua
    4 = Red         C = Light Red
    5 = Purple      D = Light Purple
    6 = Yellow      E = Light Yellow
    7 = White       F = Bright White

If no argument is given, this command restores the color to what it wa
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when CMD.EXE started.  This value either comes from the current consol
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window, the /T command line switch or from the DefaultColor registry
value.

The COLOR command sets ERRORLEVEL to 1 if an attempt is made to execut
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the COLOR command with a foreground and background color that are the
same.

Example: "COLOR fc" produces light red on bright white
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Re^2: Restore normal text color in windows console by ambrus (Abbot) on May 31, 2013 at 11:43 UTC
Thanks! This command also works. It has the side effect of changing the color of existing text in the console, but I can live with that.	[reply]


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