How to reset the looks of the Command Prompt window, in Windows?
Try deleting the entire HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console
key (export it first just in case) from the registry. It's re-created when you customise any cmd window again, and seems to have done the trick for me in Win7.
To reset windows console (CMD):
- Create restore point of your system (Important).
- In start menu type
RegEdit
right click it andrun as admin
. - Now if you modified your console before, you should find a key like this:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console\%SystemRoot%_system32_cmd.exe
- Only delete that key i.e
%SystemRoot%_system32_cmd.exe
- Restart your system and check your console (cmd) now should be back to defaults.
Is this what you are looking for?
You can also check HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor
registry key and delete all the values (upon reopening cmd
the default values should be set).