{"id":16615,"date":"2019-04-21T17:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T21:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=16615"},"modified":"2019-04-22T08:24:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:24:41","slug":"take-command-of-the-command-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/take-command-of-the-command-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Command of the Command Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take Command of the Command Prompt<\/span><\/h1>\n

While this tip was written for Windows 10,\u00a0 you can also change the command prompt colors and fonts in Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 too.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We have a lot of tips that require you to open a command prompt. And when you do, most of you see a black box with small white text that can be hard to read.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

But you don’t have to put up with hard to read fonts or that stark, foreboding black background I tells you. You can take command of the command prompt and it’s not hard.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, let’s open a command prompt with administrator privileges.<\/span><\/p>\n

1.) Type CMD in taskbar search. When it appears at the top right-click on it and choose Run as Administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n

2.) When the command prompt opens, right-click on its title bar and choose “Properties” from the drop-down menu.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

3.) Let’s change the font and the font size and make it bold too, for easy viewing. In the “Properties” dialog (below), click on the “Font” tab at the top.\u00a0 Choose a size, a font, and make it bold if you like. If you want to leave the background black, you can click “OK” after changing the font, font size, and font style.<\/span><\/p>\n

But if you want to change the background color and or the font color, you have more to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

4.) To change the background color and\/or the font color, click on the “Colors” tab in command prompt properties dialog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Select “Screen Text” then click on a color in the color bar, if you know your RGBs you can customize a color. Don’t spend too much time on this, the available colors should work just fine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Select “Screen Background” to change the background color of the command prompt window. Again you can choose one of the color bars, or if you’re a fussy RGB’er you can choose Red, Green, Blue settings. But really, you should spend that much time on this.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

Make sure you click “OK” to save your changes. And that’s it, you’re done. <\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to further customize the command prompt you can change the popup dialog background font colors, and you can even set a customized size for the command prompt window. You can explore the other tabs in the command prompt “Properties” dialog, but for us just changing the font, font-size, font-style, font-color and command prompt background was good enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now you can see the large, bold yellow font on a blue background is much easier to read than the small faded white font on a black background that is the command prompt’s default.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take Command of the Command Prompt While this tip was written for Windows 10,\u00a0 you can also change the command prompt colors and fonts in Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 too. We have a lot of tips that require you to open a command prompt. And when you do, most of you see a black box with small\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1796,3099,3100,3101,1684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16619,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615\/revisions\/16619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}