FYI: Win10 21H1 and Command Prompt Colors

Early this morning, I upgraded my Windows 10 Professional installation to feature version 21H1. I have been running all day, with no significant things to report except one minor annoyance that I solved easily.

The annoyance is that the Colors tab, which one would expect to be the place to go to set the text and background colors of a Command Prompt (cmd.exe) window, appears to remain, but only for show (more or less). You can change colors in that tab all day long, and your display remains stubbornly white text on a black background.

Visit the Terminal tab, which has been there since Microsoft went all in on Linux support, and you can easily change the colors to suit. Though the color selection process looks a bit different, it works quite well, and is easy to use. Now that I discovered this, my command prompt windows are restored to my preferred colors, green text on a black background, just like the good old days when we used IBM 3270 terminals and such.

Try3 said:

My cmd prompt colours remain as I set them despite 21H1.

I have mine set in the Properties, Colours tab of the shortcut that opens the cmd window.
- If I change them in the Properties of an open cmd window, they do not take effect until I reopen it.

Denis

That much I expected. The surprise was that in my installation, changing had no effect, period.