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Home » Script to Customize the look of a PowerShell Window

Script to Customize the look of a PowerShell Window

September 26, 2020 - by Zsolt Agoston - last edited on September 30, 2020

A PowerShell window looks pretty unified when it starts up. Especially if there are multiple windows open at the same time it might be helpful if they were distinguishable. Like a different color as the background, or a specific title of the window goes a long way to make it obvious which window we want to work with.

1. Set title, background and text color

To set the title and color scheme of a PowerShell window, we simply have to set the appropriate values for the built-in $Host system management variable, more specifically it's UI and RawUI properties, which keeps the values of the console window. Let's take a look:

PS C:\> $Host.UI.RawUI


ForegroundColor       : DarkYellow
BackgroundColor       : DarkMagenta
CursorPosition        : 0,1
WindowPosition        : 0,0
CursorSize            : 25
BufferSize            : 140,3000
WindowSize            : 140,40
MaxWindowSize         : 140,50
MaxPhysicalWindowSize : 195,50
KeyAvailable          : False
WindowTitle           : Administrator: Windows PowerShell



PS C:\>

Here we are only interested it the ForegroundColor, BackgroundColor and WindowTitle properties, setting the background white, the text color black and the title to "Monochrome Window"

$console = $Host.UI.RawUI
$console.WindowTitle = "Monochrome Window"
$console.BackgroundColor = "white"
$console.ForegroundColor = "black"
Clear

2. Result

The result looks like this:

Script to Customize the look of a PowerShell Window

Feel free to experiment with more colors, here is a list of the available palette in PowerShell:

Script to Customize the look of a PowerShell Window

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