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Does anyone know how to change the color of selection done in command prompt window on the fly? I forgot the key sequence which used to allow that.
I am not talking about changing the color permanently like with color command which changes color of all the text.
For example visit this page: Check Command Prompt Window screenshots
Since Windows 2000, the whoami command has been part of the standard command line (thanks to pk for clearing that up in comments!).
You can do this: Open a command prompt and type "set" then hit enter. This shows active environment variables. Current logged on username is stored in the USERNAME env variable and your domain is stored in the USERDOMAIN variable.
To piggy-back off the other answers, from a cmd line:
echo %USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME%
will get you the complete logged on user in domain\username format.
You can do the same thing with Powershell with this:
write-host $env:userdomain\$env:username
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On Windows XP this should do the trick. Download Tweak UI from Microsoft, then:
This enables selection coloring on every command-line prompt. You should be able to highlight text, pressing CONTROL-0, CONTROL-1 (or any combination through CONTROL-9) to change the background color of the selected text. For changing the foreground color of the selected text, press ALT-0, ALT-1 (or any combination through ALT-9).