Changing Command Prompt Colors

How To Change the  Command Prompt Colors  in Windows

For those who are bored of the lame white text on black background in their cmd they can read on to know how to change the text colour and the background colour.
Here are the steps on how to change the default color of the Command Prompt.

a) Using GUI

1. Open Command Prompt.

2. Right-click on the top.

3. Click on Properties.

4. Go to the Colors tab.

5. Select text or background and edit the color values.

6. Click ok to apply changes.

b) Using cmd interface

1. Press windows + R to open run.

2. Type 'cmd' (without the quotes) and click ok.
3. Type 'color z' to get the list of all colors and numbers or letters    assigned for each of them.
    Note that the first letter/number in the command represent the colour     of the background and the       second represent the colour of the text.
 

4. Type color letter/number to change the text color. In here, Use the    letter/number for the color you     want. For instance if you want  Purple  colour type in 'color 5' or to have light Red, type in 'color       c'.

5. To change the colour of the text as well as the background, type  'color 09' to have black as the           background and light blue as the text color.
 

Similarly to get a Light Red background and a Yellow font type in 'color ce'.

Here is how to program it in C language Link