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I wanted to customize my shell by enumerating all the possible options and giving them alternate values. I have searched high and low, but there is practically no good guide on doing it, the closest is Lee Holmes' scripts mentioned here. Problem is, it does not seem to work. Whatever properties I set either in the "newly" created powershell.exe section, or in the global HKCU:\Console (may that be a ColorTable value or the Fullscreen property), it simply has no effect.

I was curious on how to set values even to things such as incomplete commands coloring to yellow, and aliases (such as 'exit') becoming green. Now, any dash after a command (to introduce a parameter) renders the word black, making it invisible with dark backgrounds.

How can I reset the console, but more importantly, find the location that actually holds settings that take effect?

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  • By default, `powershell` does not provide command line syntax coloring; maybe you usee `PsReadLine` module (it comes preinstalled with Powershell 5 on Windows 10)? Check `Get-PSReadlineOption` cmdlet output. – JosefZ Mar 30 '16 at 22:06
  • I was not aware of this cmdlet. I have checked, but I have yet to interpret the results. Can this module be customized? – Meteorhead Apr 11 '16 at 09:46
  • Try `Get-Help 'Set-PSReadlineOption' -ShowWindow` or its [online version](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=528811). – JosefZ Apr 11 '16 at 15:22

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