How to change ONLY the prompt color of the Windows command-line?

Question

As we all know, Windows command-line have the white-black color scheme. And we could use:

COLOR

command to change the colors of background and text.

But the command above will change the whole text in the command-line. E.g. the result of command is as follows:

COLOR 04

But I don't want this kind of color-scheme because that makes no difference with the original white-black one. It is hard to distinguish the command you input and the output of the command. What I want is something like this:

I want the color of command prompt is different with other text on the screen so that I can find the command I input easily. But I only get the solution on Linux. It uses:

export PS1=”\[\e[35;1m\][\u@\h: \W]\$\[\e[0m\] “

So my question is:

How can I change the color of command prompt like the above one on Windows?

Thanks very much.

Solution:

Following the prompt of @Luke I finally get the solution. Anyone who is interested in this topic please hit the two links below:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6297072/color-for-the-prompt-just-the-prompt-proper-in-cmd-exe-and-powershell & http://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=130

It is "ANSI hack developped for the CMD.exe shell".

Wish that would be helpful for you.

Answer 1

1. Get ANSI color support:

   • NOTE: Current/Updated Windows 10 console already supports ANSI

   • Install ANSICON (source) for ANSI support in legacy windows consoles.

   • Hyper supports ANSI colors.

   • ConEmu supports ANSI colors.

2. Setup your command prompt via environment settings...

   • Click / press Start
   • type env
   • Click Edit environment variables for your account
   • Edit / Add a PROMPT variable
     
     

3. More information on prompt options

   • Scott Hanselman's Blog - A Better PROMPT...
   • Microsoft TechNet - PROMPT
     
     

4. My own prompt...

   • $_$E[1;30;40m[$E[0;36;40m%computername% | %userdomain%\%username%$E[1;30;40m] $E[0;33;40m$M$_$E[35;40m$d$s$t$h$h$h$h$h$h$_$E[1;33;40m$p$_$E[1;30;40m$g $E[0;37;40m
   • $E - escape character
   • $E[...m - ANSI Color Sequence
   • $_ - New line
   • $d - Date
   • $t - Time
   • $h - Backspace (get rid of seconds and fractional seconds)
   • $p - Current Path
   • $m - Mount Path (if in a mounted drive)
   • $g - Greater than sign