powershell Color

Question

Hello everybody.
How can i change powershell background color with using powershell commands?
Thanks for answare

Answer 1

Hi @Filip ,

just type the following inside your powershell:
$Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = 'Black'
You can change Black with all other colors like Green, Red, Blue,...

To change the colors of your letters for example to green, type the following:
$host.ui.RawUI.ForegroundColor ='Green'

To see the changes just clear your console window. These settings are temporary. If you want them to be persistent check, if you have already a profile file (Test-Path $profile). If you don't have a profile, you can create it using following command: New-Item -path $profile -type file -force
Then fill the file with some information like for example
$console = $host.ui.rawui
$console.backgroundcolor = "black"
$console.foregroundcolor = "white"
$colors = $host.privatedata
$colors.verbosebackgroundcolor = "Magenta"
$colors.verboseforegroundcolor = "Green"
$colors.warningbackgroundcolor = "Red"
$colors.warningforegroundcolor = "white"
$colors.ErrorBackgroundColor = "DarkCyan"
$colors.ErrorForegroundColor = "Yellow"
set-location C:\
clear-host

Best regards
Matthias

Answer 2

Hi @Filip ,

maybe this is helpful:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/4b43f071-abf5-4a65-9048-82d474473a8e/how-can-i-set-the-powershell-console-background-color-not-the-text-background-color?forum=winserverpowershell
https://petri.com/change-powershell-console-font-and-background-colors

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten