Code a CustomCmd Script for Windows Command Prompt

Do you use CMD a lot? I do! But a ton of people - including me - think it is much too boring. Today I will be coding a script that will allow us to customize CMD just enough to keep it fun. Let's get started!

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YOU WILL NEED TO RUN THE FILE AS ADMIN

Step 1: Start Notepad++ (or Notepad)

First and foremost we need to start Notepad++. I use it to code everything! If you don't have it just open up Notepad. I would 100% recommend installing it.

Step 2: Code the Menu

Of course we will need to add @echo off and then I will just make a simple menu layout:

@echo off
REM By: Aidan Biggs
REM AKA AT Vloggers
REM
REM Please do not claim this as your own.
REM
REM If you remove this it means you break the Code of Use found here: 
REM https://at-vloggers.weebly.com/code-of-use.html
title Custom CMD
cls
echo ===============
echo By: Aidan Biggs
echo AKA AT Vloggers
echo.
echo CustomCMD
echo ===============
echo.
echo 1. REVERT TO NORMAL
echo 2. CUSTOM
echo 3. EXIT
set /p rce=
if %rce% == 1 goto revert
if %rce% == 2 goto custom
exit

Step 3: Add the Custom Tool

Next we will add the menu to set the custom parts of CMD. We also need to add the code that will update the registry and add our custom parts. We can also add an option to update one and not the other.

:custom
cls
echo What do you want the command bar, (look below) to say?
echo type NONE to stay as is
echo.
echo Your-text-will-be-here^>
echo.
set /p cmdbar=
echo.
echo What do you want the window title to be?
echo type NONE to stay as is
echo.
set /p cmdtitle=
echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 >customCmd.reg
echo. >>customCmd.reg
echo [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor] >>customCmd.reg
if "%cmdbar%" == "NONE" (
	echo "Autorun"="title %cmdtitle%" >>customCmd.reg
) else (
	echo "Autorun"="prompt %cmdbar%$G && title %cmdtitle%" >>customCmd.reg
)
if "%cmdtitle%" == "NONE" (
	echo "Autorun"="prompt %cmdbar%$G" >>customCmd.reg
) else (
	echo "Autorun"="prompt %cmdbar%$G && title %cmdtitle%" >>customCmd.reg
)
echo. >>customCmd.reg
echo. >>customCmd.reg
cls
regedit /S %cd%\customCmd.reg
del customCmd.reg
cls
echo DONE
pause >nul
exit

Step 4: Add the Revert Tool

Now that we have the actual custom part, we could leave it as is. The only problem would be that we would have no way to revert the changes. That is what this code is for:

:revert
cls
echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 >customCmd.reg
echo. >>customCmd.reg
echo [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor] >>customCmd.reg
echo "Autorun"=- >>customCmd.reg
echo. >>customCmd.reg
echo. >>customCmd.reg
cls
regedit /S %cd%\customCmd.reg
del customCmd.reg
cls
echo DONE
pause >nul
exit