WinXP console colors

I switched to Windows XP quite recently and as you all know, the default
colors for text console are god-awful. Sick yellowish color instead of
brown, light gray and dark gray are very similar, same for light red and
dark red and dark blue is extremely dark. I don't know if the person who
picked these colors was colorblind or something, but he obviously didn't
have a clue. It makes roguelike experience much less pleasant. Still I
guess many people use these horrid default colours, because they don't
know how to change them. They may have never even seen the "right"
colors so they can't appreciate just how beautiful the roguelikes may be
if the right color palette is used.

So, here is the fix:

1. Run "regedit" and enter HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Console branch.

2. Export this branch into a file, say "console.reg"

3.Open it with notepad.

4. Substitute the first 16 lines that follow [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console]
with:

"ColorTable00"=dword:00000000
"ColorTable01"=dword:00990000
"ColorTable02"=dword:00009900
"ColorTable03"=dword:00999900
"ColorTable04"=dword:00000099
"ColorTable05"=dword:00990099
"ColorTable06"=dword:00003399
"ColorTable07"=dword:00c0c0c0
"ColorTable08"=dword:00666666
"ColorTable09"=dword:00ff3333
"ColorTable10"=dword:0033ff33
"ColorTable11"=dword:00ffff00
"ColorTable12"=dword:003333ff
"ColorTable13"=dword:00ff00ff
"ColorTable14"=dword:0000ffff
"ColorTable15"=dword:00ffffff

5. Save the file and run it - this will patch your register.

6. Enjoy the natural colors.

7. If you don't like these ones, you can change them. The values must
have the form "dword:00BBGGRR", where BB is hexadecimal representation
of blue intensity, GG - green, RR - red. In particular, brown color may
need further tweaking - it's not symmetrical to other composite colors
so some guessing had to be done.

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