You can change the color of the console with the code below:

system("COLOR 90");

If you enter an invalid code for the color attribute, you should get the message below:

These colors and codes do not always work perfectly, so try it out and see what you can get it to do.

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.

Press any key to continue . . .