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I often run commands in cmd.exe that have pretty colors in their output, which is great. Unfortunately, sometimes they die in the middle, or I have to kill them, and then the console window itself gets stuck in (say) red text on black background, which is awkward.
How do I reset the text color to the default?
On a unix terminal, I can type reset — I'm looking for the cmd.exe equivalent of that.
Issuing binary characters to the terminal screen is risky, as some control sequences are interpreted as commands that change the terminal mode, and not only for colors. This is because the Linux terminal emulates the antique VT100 console (with additions). See this post for a good explanation of the problem.
To sanitize your tty use one or several of the following commands :
resetstty sanetput inittput resetA surer way might be to use the stty command to save and reset all your setting at once:
stty -g to print the current settings in stty-readable formatalias s='stty <output string from step 2>'The Popup Background settings from the Console Windows Properties is for the the color of the console popup window such as when you press F7 to view the history of commands you've used in your console session.
By default the console screen highlight color simply appears to be the inverse color of whatever color you have set in the Console Windows Properties from the Screen Background setting.
Therefore as suggested, if you set the Screen Background colors to 50,50,50 in the Selected Color Values settings, then this seems to give you a gray highlight color per its inverse color.
The trade off for doing this is that the regular of non-highlighted console background color will be of a lighter shade than just solid black.
Best Answer
Color 07will set it to the default scheme that cmd.exe uses.