how can i change colour in ms-dos ?

[chitvan]

how can i change color of text & background in ms-dos in winxp sp2?

i want to change text color white to bright green.

[yrana2002]

Open ms-dos
And type:
Color 2

For other colors:
0 = Black
1 = Blue
2 = Green
3 = Aqua
4 = Red
5 = Purple
6 = Yellow
7 = White
8 = Gray

[mehulved]

u can also right click on the the dos window in taskbar and click on properties, you can change the colour from there

[chitvan]

thanx

[shovik]

You can also do combinations of two colors for both text and background.
The syntax is as follows:
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 below 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 was when CMD.EXE started. This value either comes from the current console 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 execute the COLOR command with a foreground and background color that are the same.

Regards,
Shovik.

[JGuru]

You can also change color through C programming!! For normal users create a link to 'DOS Console' in the
dekstop, and click on 'Properties' .There you can change all the options like memory, foreground color,
backgrounf color etc.,