Command Prompt & PowerShell Here all show in red

[oscillik]

I'm not sure which version this started happening, but it's been happening for a while for me and I've only just remembered to bring it up!

Whenever I use the "Command Prompt Here" or "PowerShell Here" commands from the Tools menu, the prompts are in a red background as if they were ran with Admin privs. I have no idea why they're doing this.

Non-elevated prompts (that should be black background):

Elevated prompts (that SHOULD be red background):

Any help to get them to show up normally would be very much appreciated!

[Jon]

Maybe you've changed the default color? Do you see the same thing if you run cmd.exe from the Windows+R dialog?

[oscillik]

I haven't changed the defaults, however I have just run cmd.exe from Win+R and it is indeed red.

I have gone to the properties window and it thinks it should be black, as you can see here:

Really weird!

[Jon]

Do you have anything set for AutoRun underneath HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor in the registry?

[oscillik]

Nope, this is all I have under that key

[Jon]

Maybe you have some other software installed that's changing it? You might want to try asking on superuser.com or similar to see if anyone there has any ideas.

[oscillik]

Thanks for looking into it for me! I'll see what I can find out

[Leo]

The HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console area also has some settings which can remap the 16 colors to other values.

Here's what all the settings there look like on a clean install of Win 10 Pro:

[ASUNDER]

This is an older thread, so it looks like you guys made it better.
So I was able to fix the red background with the nocolor argument.

Also, the 'Three Buttons' feature is awesome. So my command prompt button, left click opens a cmd at the folder, right click same with admin and middle click power shell admin. Nice.

This is the right click on button: Cmd admin with (fixed) black background.