"oh, you know so much! howd you do that?"
"grandma, i literally only typed dir."
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That's because the default color scheme is white on black. Just change it and Poof! Blue magic, red magic, yellow magic... so many possibilities!
is the blue magic another name for the bsod
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/color
man that was the command that first got me into the terminal lol
it was also how i made a christmas tree when there was none: launch cmd, change the colors to a christmas-y palette (spefifically red on green) and run
tree. bam. christmas tree. look heres a screenshot