ColorConsole - CMD and PowerShell with extras (SoftwareOK)

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Tested: Portable (not Stealth)
Registry Key: HKCU\Software\SoftwareOK.de\ColorConsole

ColorConsole brings a little color to your black and white world of Windows console.

Download: http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/ColorConsole

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Added To TPFC: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1960
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Thanks to user TP109 for adding, but I updated the entry appropriately. Seems SoftwareOK created a Portable version since testing the old version.

[Don54]

Create a file "ColorConsole.ini" (Content: [Settings]) in "app dir", run app and accept EULA, and there is no entry in registry. But if you close the app, there is always created an empty (fuckin') file "ColorConsole_Portable.INI" in "win dir", so "ColorConsole" already is not stealth.

[webfork]

Create a file "ColorConsole.ini" (Content: [Settings]) in "app dir", run app and accept EULA, and there is no entry in registry. But if you close the app, there is always created an empty (fuckin') file "ColorConsole_Portable.INI" in "win dir", so "ColorConsole" already is not stealth.

I just retested and I'm not seeing an issue with the current instructions. What do these additional steps add?

[rbon]

ColorConsole ver. 5.51 released on February 4, 2021
• web site: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/ColorConsole
• direct download 32 bit portable: https://softwareok.com/?Download=ColorC ... rtable.zip
• direct download 64 bit portable: https://softwareok.com/?Download=ColorC ... rtable.zip

New in version 5.51
• Updates and improvements in alternative CMD
• New language for the alternative color console : Finnish
• Many thanks to Otto for the Finnish language.

[Mike.S.G.]

I want to try out this app but would like some clarification if I could get it please, do we need to create an .ini or not? I would like to avoid any unneccessary junk getting created if I can avoid it - so I ask

I ask only because the dev's site does say something about creating a .ini file...

The Installation!
ColorConsole does not require installation, can easily be launched from the desktop with no installation and is ready to use on all Windows operating systems as an extension for Command Prompt. For portable use: Please create Portable ColorConsole.ini in Work Directory!

If so, is this the name... space and all.

Portable ColorConsole.ini

I downloaded ColorConsole_x64_Portable.zip -- ColorConsole_x64_p.exe is the only file in the archive, no readme, etc.

Just wonderin'

[Andrew Lee]

I want to try out this app but would like some clarification if I could get it please, do we need to create an .ini or not? I would like to avoid any unneccessary junk getting created if I can avoid it - so I ask

You run ColorConsole_x64_p.exe, and the INI file ColorConsole.ini will be created in the same directory if it doesn't already exist.

[Mike.S.G.]

Thanks Andrew for the feedback, much appreciated.

[webfork]

Updated in Aug 2023, now at v6.88

Changes:

New in version 6.88 // 22 August 2023
New code sign certificate for ColorConsole .exe
Important tests of Color Console APP for the next MS Windows 11/10 update
Update of language files in the Color Console application

New in version 6.81 // 2 June 2023
Small tests and adjustments for the new MS Windows 11 update
Updated language files in Color Console APP for all Windows operating systems

New in version 6.77 // 14 November 2022
Verification and testing of the Color Console app on Windows 11 22H2
General fixes and small tweaks in the alternative prompt