IgNiTeD SoUL

Windows 2000/XP/2003 supports the color command to change the background and foreground in a shell prompt. The basic syntax of the color command is as follows:

COLOR BF

Here, B is the background color value and F is the foreground color value. The color command supports the following color values:

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

Here is an example to change the shell prompt colors to bright white text on a blue background:

IF “%OS%”= =”Windows_NT” COLOR 1F

Here, %OS% is an environment variable that indicates the operating system type.