CMD Basics (How to Change Colour of CMD)
- Interesting
- Apr 3, 2017
- 1 min read
Hello readers :D! This topic is a little bit more interesting than the last one. This one talks about how to change the colour of the CMD. We will be going through 2 ways to change the colour of the CMD. Hopefully, we will teach you a couple of neat tricks that makes you one step closer to a master white hat hacker!

Step 1: Open the CMD (Read other post to learn how to open CMD)

Step 2: Type "color help." This will load up lots of text that tells you exactly how to change the colour of the text, or background of the CMD. For instance, to change the color of the text to green, you would type in "color 06."

Step 3: If you want more colour control over the CMD, click on the very left hand top corner of the CMD.

Step 4: Click "Properties."

Step 5: Click "Colours."

Step 6: Click on either: Screen Text or Screen Background.

Step 7: Change the Red, Green and Blue values until its the right colour you want.

Great Job! You have officially changed the colour! That wasn't to hard was it?