{"id":592,"date":"2014-10-03T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/10\/03\/powertip-change-color-of-powershell-errors\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-change-color-of-powershell-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-change-color-of-powershell-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Change Color of PowerShell Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to change the color of Windows PowerShell errors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I change the color of Windows PowerShell errors in the Windows PowerShell console?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use&nbsp;<b>$host.PrivateData<\/b>&nbsp;and supply a new value for&nbsp;<b>ErrorForegroundColor<\/b>, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$Host.PrivateData.ErrorForegroundColor = &#039;white&#039;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to change the color of Windows PowerShell errors. &nbsp;How can I change the color of Windows PowerShell errors in the Windows PowerShell console? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;$host.PrivateData&nbsp;and supply a new value for&nbsp;ErrorForegroundColor, for example: $Host.PrivateData.ErrorForegroundColor = &#039;white&#039;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to change the color of Windows PowerShell errors. &nbsp;How can I change the color of Windows PowerShell errors in the Windows PowerShell console? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;$host.PrivateData&nbsp;and supply a new value for&nbsp;ErrorForegroundColor, for example: $Host.PrivateData.ErrorForegroundColor = &#039;white&#039;<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}