How to change the background color and text color in command prompt?

What is Command Prompt (CMD ) ?



All of you might know about Command Prompt commonly known as CMD.  CMD stands for command i.e it is a command line interpreter on Windows OS provided by Microsoft company. In Windows 9x and DOS it is the analog of COMMAND.COM ( Commonly Called as MS-DOS Prompt ) whereas in Unix system it is analog of UNIX Shells.

Change the text color and Background color in cmd

First you need to open cmd so as to proceed next step to change the background color and text color. To open command prompt simply follow this steps.

Step 1: Click on the Start Menu.

Step 2: Click on the Run option.

Or you can press Windows Key + R to get Run command directly 

Step 3: Type the appropriate command  (cmd )

Step 4: Click on the OK button :) 

That's it...

Change the Text Color of Command Prompt

 Now,Type below command in your command prompt !!!

color 0a to change the text color to green.
color 0b to change the text color to blue.
color 0c to change the text color to red.
color 0d to change the text color to pink.
color 0e to change the text color to Yellow.
color 0f to change the text color to White.

Change the Background color of Command Prompt 

  Now,Type below command in your command prompt !!!
  
color 0a to change the background color to Black.
color 1a to change the background color to Blue.
color 2a to change the background color to Green.
color 3a to change the background color to Aqua.
color 4a to change the background color to Red.
color 5a to change the background color to Purple.
color 6a to change the background color to Yellow.
color 7a to change the background color to White.
color 8a to change the background color to Grey.
color 9a to change the background color to Light Blue.

Note : In this code we are using a which refers to Green Text so while changing background if you wished to change the color of text too change A to other Alphabets like b or c or d or e or f. The text color code are same as mentioned in above process to change text color i.e b forBlue Text & c for Red Text.

Here's an example on how to make red background with blue text.

For red background,color code number is 4 and for blue text,color code alphabet is b so code becomes color 4b

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial on How to change the background and text color in command prompt. Now you can prank your friends easily, can play with cmd and change the text and background color easily.If you got any problem then simply comment below !!!