console - How to set Powershell background color programmatically to RGB Value

Question

The current selection of 16 colors from Console Colors is not the right choice for me. I would like to use much darker variants of these for the background.

I could definitely set these using the UI and changing the RGB value there.

For example, I could choose Darkblue and select 65 for Blue in the RGB section(128 is the default). Could some one tell me how to do this programmatically.

Something like:

(Get-Host).UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor=DarkBlue

But with additional options.

Answer 1

This old post by Lee Holmes explains how you can go about changing the color to any value you want. You have to change the registry - http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2008/06/01/powershells-noble-blue/

Push-Location 
Set-Location HKCU:Console 
New-Item ".\%SystemRoot%_system32_WindowsPowerShell_v1.0_powershell.exe" 
Set-Location ".\%SystemRoot%_system32_WindowsPowerShell_v1.0_powershell.exe"

New-ItemProperty . ColorTable00 -type DWORD -value 0×00562401 
New-ItemProperty . ColorTable07 -type DWORD -value 0x00f0edee 
New-ItemProperty . FaceName -type STRING -value "Lucida Console" 
New-ItemProperty . FontFamily -type DWORD -value 0×00000036 
New-ItemProperty . FontSize -type DWORD -value 0x000c0000 
New-ItemProperty . FontWeight -type DWORD -value 0×00000190 
New-ItemProperty . HistoryNoDup -type DWORD -value 0×00000000 
New-ItemProperty . QuickEdit -type DWORD -value 0×00000001 
New-ItemProperty . ScreenBufferSize -type DWORD -value 0x0bb80078 
New-ItemProperty . WindowSize -type DWORD -value 0×00320078 
Pop-Location