Change The Background Of DOS

The value Default Color controls the foreground and background colors used in command prompt windows. It has a default value of 0, for standard white text on a black background. Now you can change the color of the text by applying some few changes.

Open your registry (press win+r and type regedit , hit enter ) and then go to


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]

you will find "DefaultColor"

You can replace it's value with a two-digit hexadecimal number, in which the first digit selects a background color and the second a foreground color. The hexadecimal codes are:

Hexadecimal value Color
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


A value of F0, for example, would give black text on a white background, and 2E would yield yellow text on a Green background.

The change should take effect the next time you open a console window. Have Fun