How to change ONLY the prompt color of the Windows command-line? [duplicate]

As we all know, Windows command-line have the white-black color scheme. And we could use:

COLOR

command to change the colors of background and text.

But the command above will change the whole text in the command-line. E.g. the result of command is as follows:

COLOR 04

But I don't want this kind of color-scheme because that makes no difference with the original white-black one. It is hard to distinguish the command you input and the output of the command. What I want is something like this:

I want the color of command prompt is different with other text on the screen so that I can find the command I input easily. But I only get the solution on Linux. It uses:

export PS1=”\[\e[35;1m\][\u@\h: \W]\$\[\e[0m\] “

So my question is:

How can I change the color of command prompt like the above one on Windows?

Thanks very much.

Solution:

Following the prompt of @Luke I finally get the solution. Anyone who is interested in this topic please hit the two links below:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6297072/color-for-the-prompt-just-the-prompt-proper-in-cmd-exe-and-powershell & http://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=130

It is "ANSI hack developped for the CMD.exe shell".

Wish that would be helpful for you.

Solution 1:

1. Get ANSI color support:

• NOTE: Current/Updated Windows 10 console already supports ANSI

• Install ANSICON (source) for ANSI support in legacy windows consoles.

• Hyper supports ANSI colors.

• ConEmu supports ANSI colors.

2. Setup your command prompt via environment settings...

• Click / press Start
• type env
• Click Edit environment variables for your account
• Edit / Add a PROMPT variable
  
  

3. More information on prompt options

• Scott Hanselman's Blog - A Better PROMPT...
• Microsoft TechNet - PROMPT
  
  

4. My own prompt...

• $_$E[1;30;40m[$E[0;36;40m%computername% | %userdomain%\%username%$E[1;30;40m] $E[0;33;40m$M$_$E[35;40m$d$s$t$h$h$h$h$h$h$_$E[1;33;40m$p$_$E[1;30;40m$g $E[0;37;40m
• $E - escape character
• $E[...m - ANSI Color Sequence
• $_ - New line
• $d - Date
• $t - Time
• $h - Backspace (get rid of seconds and fractional seconds)
• $p - Current Path
• $m - Mount Path (if in a mounted drive)
• $g - Greater than sign