Command Prompt Settings – Keeping Color and Title in Windows 7

I found a possible solution here: http://www.eightforums.com/customization/8724-windows-8-desktop-ui-change-title-text-color.html

However it's very much use at your own risk.

This is an at your own Risk tutorial Create a Restore Point

Then, go here

Dark theme for Windows8 RTM by ~Nighthawk-F22 on deviantART

Then you will also need this,

Homepage M. Hoefs - Software

Run the UXTheme Patcher

Will patch the following files and append .backup to the originals...

uxinit.dll uxtheme.dll themeui.dll

If you uninstall UXThemePatcher it is supposed to replace the original files back.

Then try to copy the files from the Visual Style in the first link (I used Theme Without Thin White Inline Frame) to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes

And overwrite the files.

If you have to take Ownership of the Themes folder, that is fine and then give Full Admin Rights to it and child objects. DO NOT TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THE SYSTEM32 FOLDER as a whole, or even your C: drive. ONLY the Themes folder. You have been warned.

You may have to reboot a couple of times, Also, when you change themes the first time, Windows may freak out, but just reboot and it should be OK. Otherwise, you may have to do a restore and try again.

It is a bit tricky, because you do not want the background color changing process to intercept any of your console input. You could add the /NOBREAK option to the TIMEOUT command, such that the script never reads stdin, except it still could process a <CTRL-Break> interupt, and ask if you want to terminate the script. The user could respond with Y and terminate the background process, but that could get confusing if the main process also has a running batch script. Which process gets the input?

You can redirect stdin to nul for the background process, but TIMEOUT fails if input is redirected.

I modified your auto-change-text-color.bat to use a PING delay instead of TIMEOUT, thus allowing stdin to be redirected to NUL. I also put one last COLOR command at the end to finish with a more readable color combination.

@echo off
set NUM=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
for %%x in (%NUM%) do (
  for %%y in (%NUM%) do (
    color %%x%%y
    >nul ping localhost -n 2
  )
)
color 07

The following command is used to launch the script in the background with stdin redirected to nul:

start "" /b cmd /c "auto-change-text-color.bat <nul"

The only odd side effect is that the background process still can receive <CTRL-Break>, and it prints out the message Terminate batch job (Y/N)?, but immediately continues without waiting for input. So you can safely start a batch script in the main process, issue <CTRL-Break> and get two Terminate messages, and press Y or N knowing that only the batch script in your main process will respond (terminate or not).