Windows 10 sallow colours

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Windows 10 sallow colours

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Hello!

I use FAR manager more than 10 years ago. I have version 3 x64 under Windows 10. Until this time, there was'nt problem, but from one day (maybe some windows update) the colours are not nice, like sallow or something.

I show you pic:
Clipboard02.jpg
Before there was like this:
Clipboard01.jpg
Can you help me, what can I do?

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Windows 10 sallow colours

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nt_palette.reg
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Windows 10 sallow colours

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Hi!
Thank You, but when when I ran it, nothing happen with colours (the registry were changed)
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szellszabi, you might need to:
- Delete subkeys under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console with funny names like C:_Program Files_Far_Far.exe, if any.
- Recreate shortcuts, if any.
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Windows 10 sallow colours

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Oh, Thank You very very much!
It works!
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Different colors in Windows 10 when you run Far.exe directly

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I have problems with Far 3 colors in Windows 10.
When I start it by running the shortcut from the Start Menu the colors look normal:
Win10_Shortcut_Colors.png
However when I run Far.exe directly, the colors look very different (much brighter):
Win10_Exe_Colors.png
I tried all possible properties of the window (Font/Layout/Colors) but couldn't fix this.
I use AutoHotkey and I have a hotkey to run Far, but now I need to point it to the .lnk file to get normal UI.

I was able to reproduce this on multiple systems, including cleanly installed Windows 10 VM.

Windows 10 x64 Version 1803
Far Manager v3.0 build 5300
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temporary: colortool.exe cmd-legacy
permanent: colortool.exe -b cmd-legacy

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/comman ... colortool/
https://github.com/Microsoft/console/releases
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Different colors in Windows 10 when you run Far.exe directly

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Thanks, this works!

To save the temporary one (colortool.exe cmd-legacy) you just need to open the Properties dialog and click OK.
This way it will only affect Far and will not change the defaults.
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Different colors in Windows 10 when you run Far.exe directly

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Great. I was looking where is the problem. Now it is solved.
Small hint. When you are looking for binary file of Color Tool. Look on next page on github page.
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Thanks a lot!

A little note: binaries "Color Tool April 2019" haven't worked for me (error "Could not find or load "cmd-legacy"").
BUT "Color Tool October 2018" did the job.
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Borman2000 wrote: Wed 29 May, 2019 00:41 error "Could not find or load "cmd-legacy""
colortool.exe cmd-legacy.ini
works fine.
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2useven10 wrote: Wed 29 May, 2019 07:13 colortool.exe cmd-legacy.ini
works fine.
From ct help: "The name of a color scheme. ct will try to first load it as an .ini file color scheme If that fails, it will look for it as a .json file color scheme If that fails, it will look for it as an .itermcolors file color scheme."
So read forum but not app's help :)
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Windows 10 sallow colours

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Похоже последний раз ColorTool собирали в 2019 году
-- https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/r ... 1904.29002

Видимо считают что уже не нужен...
Хотя сорсы есть и в последней версии терминала, а последние исправления в начале января 2022.
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Windows 10 sallow colours

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All the solutions above imply modifying the system. I like to use FAR as a portable version and I would like to force the default(old) colors without having to alter anything externally to the program. One solution would seem to be to have a .lnk shortcut like the one the FAR installer creates, however, that will not work if one needs to start FAR from a command. As an example, adding it to the context menu for directories:

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reg add "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Open with FAR Manager" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /v "" /d "Open with FAR Manager" /f
reg add "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Open with FAR Manager" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /v "Icon" /d "path\to\far\far.exe,0" /f
reg add "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Open with FAR Manager\command" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /v "" /d "path\to\far\far.exe \"%%1\"" /f
Is there no way to force the old palette through an ini setting or somehting in the local "Profile" directory? Should I make a feature request regarding this? Seems to me like this problem is very widespread, but people probably just deal with the lack of contrast in the "new" windows console color palette. I find the "yellow" for selected files particularly difficult to see.
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HHHJJJ, get the latest available version. It comes with a portable solution out of the box.
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