PowerShell – Reset Colors

Posted on October 20, 2017 By David Kittell

If you have ever played with the colors of your PowerShell window this will help you reset the colors to default

> $psISE.Options

SelectedScriptPaneState                   : Top
ShowDefaultSnippets                       : True
ShowToolBar                               : True
ShowOutlining                             : True
ShowLineNumbers                           : True
TokenColors                               : {[Attribute, #FF00BFFF], [Command, #FF0000FF], [CommandArgument, #FF8A2BE2], [CommandParameter, 
                                            #FF000080]...}
ConsoleTokenColors                        : {[Attribute, #FFB0C4DE], [Command, #FFE0FFFF], [CommandArgument, #FFEE82EE], [CommandParameter, 
                                            #FFFFE4B5]...}
XmlTokenColors                            : {[Comment, #FF006400], [CommentDelimiter, #FF008000], [ElementName, #FF8B0000], [MarkupExtension, 
                                            #FFFF8C00]...}
DefaultOptions                            : Microsoft.PowerShell.Host.ISE.ISEOptions
FontSize                                  : 9
Zoom                                      : 100
FontName                                  : Lucida Console
ErrorForegroundColor                      : #FFFF0000
ErrorBackgroundColor                      : #00FFFFFF
WarningForegroundColor                    : #FFFF8C00
WarningBackgroundColor                    : #00FFFFFF
VerboseForegroundColor                    : #FF00FFFF
VerboseBackgroundColor                    : #00FFFFFF
DebugForegroundColor                      : #FF00FFFF
DebugBackgroundColor                      : #00FFFFFF
ConsolePaneBackgroundColor                : #FF012456
ConsolePaneTextBackgroundColor            : #FF012456
ConsolePaneForegroundColor                : #FFF5F5F5
ScriptPaneBackgroundColor                 : #FFFFFFFF
ScriptPaneForegroundColor                 : #FF000000
ShowWarningForDuplicateFiles              : True
ShowWarningBeforeSavingOnRun              : True
UseLocalHelp                              : True
AutoSaveMinuteInterval                    : 2
MruCount                                  : 10
ShowIntellisenseInConsolePane             : True
ShowIntellisenseInScriptPane              : True
UseEnterToSelectInConsolePaneIntellisense : True
UseEnterToSelectInScriptPaneIntellisense  : True
IntellisenseTimeoutInSeconds              : 3

Depending on what you changed something like below will reset your values

$psISE.Options.ConsolePaneBackgroundColor = '#FF012456'
$psISE.Options.ConsolePaneTextBackgroundColor = '#FF012456'
$psISE.Options.ConsolePaneForegroundColor = '#FFF5F5F5'

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