Tired of the old white font on black background of the command prompt? Right-click the title bar, choose Properties, and set the colors, fonts and width on the Colors tab 
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Now if I only could figure out how to change the text to black it would be perfect.
to change colors without your mouse, type the command:
COLOR /?
to list the color codes and then
COLOR {background code}{text code}
ex matrix colors (green on black):
COLOR 03