thanks mait

thanks i was looking for a guide regarding the dos commands.would you happen to know how to change the color of the DOS prompt instead of black and white what command is used?

thanks i was looking for a guide regarding the dos commands.would you happen to know how to change the color of the DOS prompt instead of black and white what command is used?

in XP the command is COLOR

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 following 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.

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If you want to change the defaults for CMD.exe simply open a command prompt, click in the upper left corner and go to DEFAULTS.