


So, thank you for helping me find out what Microsoft couldn't bother to tell me. There should be a light mode and a dark mode and then if someone wants to go to the trouble to change specific aspects of the syntax to their favorite color, then they can type in all the commands. It is very hard to type the commands when I can't read what I am typing. I found you very informative article and surprise, surprise, Microsoft provides a great deal of customizability, but not through their GUI.


The background did become white, but the text was yellow and it was even harder to read. Well, because of the syntax highlighting, my color changes did not do what I think any reasonable person would expect. I went in and changed the text to black and the background to white. For some ridiculous trendy reason, the background on PowerShell is black. I am working on a VM, it is past midnight and the standard color scheme is very difficult to read. There are no words to describe how much I hate what Microsoft did here. You can the display the colors with the Show-TMOutputColor cmdlet: To see how the colors look you can install the TMOutput module: Install-Module -Name TMOutput $ = Available colors ^Īs mentioned above, the number of colors you can choose from is somewhat limited: Black, DarkBlue, DarkGreen, DarkCyan, DarkRed, DarkMagenta, DarkYellow, Gray, DarkGray, Blue, Green, Cyan, Red, Magenta, Yellow, and White. Here is the complete list: $host.ui.rawui.ForegroundColor =
