I was fiddling about with PowerShell the other day after being quite upset that the default SharePoint Admin Shell comes with a black background and not the nifty dark blue that we have all come to love about PowerShell.
In my stumbling around in various books I have collected on PowerShell, I came across a handy little line of goodness:
$host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = “Darkblue”; cls
Nothing too fancy, but it will let you change the background to any one of the following:
- Black
- DarkBlue
- DarkGreen
- DarkCyan
- DarkRed
- DarkMagenta
- DarkYellow
- Gray
- DarkGray
- Blue
- Green
- Cyan
- Red
- Magenta
- Yellow
- White
None of these actually match the default blue background, but hey-ho; nothing is ever perfect.
Handy for me was the ability to switch the background color (minus the cls) to highlight different areas of a script to the user.
Nice in combination with a “Write-Host -ForegroundColor” to really bring home a point in a script.
You can, of course, pass a color to PowerShell as part of its start-up, but the approach outlined here lets you switch the color on the fly which may just come in handy.
Hey! I know this is somewhat off topic but I was wondering
if you knew where I could locate a captcha plugin for my
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Thanks a lot!
Hi
I use Akismet and JetPack you can find them both on the WordPress Plugins site
Good luck!