How to obtain other colors with the COLOR command

[Jean-Pierre Coulon]

Since last window update, my shortcut to CMD.EXE yields stupid text and
background colors, instead of those I had chosen with Properties of this icon.

How can I obtain a text color other than the 16 available with the COLOR
command? e.g. red-green-blue = 0-255-128

Bye,

[JJ]

Post by Jean-Pierre Coulon
Since last window update, my shortcut to CMD.EXE yields stupid text and
background colors, instead of those I had chosen with Properties of this icon.
How can I obtain a text color other than the 16 available with the COLOR
command? e.g. red-green-blue = 0-255-128
Bye,

Not possible using the COLOR command. You'll have to use a separate tool
which changes the current console's color table - like the one shown on the
"Colors" tab of the console's Properties dialog. Note: native console. NOT
Terminal console (crap).

e.g. Microsoft's ColorTool

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/1904.29002

Use the `.ini` file based color scheme, since it's a lot simpler than the
`.itemcolors` file based (but it support color calibration).

Note: may require at least Windows Vista.

[Jean-Pierre Coulon]

Thanks. When I right click my command-prompt icon and run it as administrator,
everything is OK.

[Jean-Pierre Coulon]

After I obtained the command-prompt window, when I right click in the
title bar, it shows a hell lot of off-topic tabs, instead of the usual
tabs to change font, buffer size, colors etc.

Is it a bug of the last Windows version?