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I had gotten bored one day and changed the colors/fonts of the command prompt, then finally i wanted to, undo this and change the color/font scheme of the windows command prompt cmd.exe back to the real default one with the black background, and plain white text. Like the color it would be if you just installed windows.

After some research, i found this answer on here: How to reset the looks of the Command Prompt window, in Windows?

I tried to follow what the answer says, i opened up regedit and deleted the Console folder under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. I did an export prior to deletion as suggested.

Now my command prompt is back to the default appearance, which is what i wanted, but now whenever i restart my computer, my windows theme gets changed from the classic looking one, to the windows 7 look theme.

The theme i had prior and want is the one you get by going Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced system settings > Advanced > Performance > Settings > Adjust for best performance.

That radio button is still selected, but doesn't look how it should.

I use to be able to retain the classic "performance oriented" across restarts just fine, before i messed around with the above registry files in an attempt to get the default colored console back.

I also have a different computer (same OS), that can keep the theme just fine after restarts.

Is this a windows bug or did i break something?

Im on windows 7 home premium 64 bit.

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The theme issue is a problem with Windows 7 and not related to your particular modifications. Not that it's any help, but the problem appears to be fixed in Windows 8.1 (I didn't use 8 so I can't speak to it).

The best I have been able find to deal with the problem is to save your theme with some name like MyTheme and then open up Personalize and reselect it after rebooting. It's not the answer I was looking for either, but I doubt MS will fix it since they haven't done so already (unless a big customer puts some weight into it).

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