How to change colors of console window?

[Frank]

Here's how I've done it since the early days of DOS:

Load ansi.sys in the config.sys (create the file if needed)
     devicehigh=c:\windows\command\ansi.sys

and put this in your autoexec.bat
     PROMPT $e[0;1;33;44m$p$g

This will give you yellow text on deep blue background.
The $p$g produces the "current directory>" part; look up ansi.sys to
get the numbers for other colors besides the 33 and 44
Frank