I wanted colored batch files and I managed to achieve this with someones solution which I modified and made my own, it is now quite different to his but I cannot find who it was to give them credit, anyway, here is the code!

 

@echo off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=#" %%a in ('"prompt #$H#$E# & echo on & for %%b in (1) do rem"') do (
set "DEL=%%a"
)
title Startup Assist - Handler
call :ColorText 08 "["
call :ColorText 08 "Service"
call :ColorText 08 "]"
call :ColorText 08 " Startup Assist - HANDLER - RUNNING "
echo.
call :ColorText 08 "["
call :ColorText 0E "WARNING"
call :ColorText 08 "]"
call :ColorText 08 " Startup Assist will stop if a server startup file is not found this is because of windows MS DOS functionality, Sorry "
echo.
call :ColorText 08 "["
call :ColorText 08 "Minecraft Service"
call :ColorText 08 "]"
call :ColorText 0A " Minecraft Server "
call :ColorText 0C " Nexion"
call :ColorText 0A " Started"
echo.
start "launch.bat" "C:UsersNexionDocumentsMinecraft ServersNexionlaunch.bat"
echo(
call :ColorText 79 "This window will now await user input!"
echo.
)
PAUSE
exit
goto :eof

:ColorText
echo off
“%~2”
findstr /v /a:%1 /R “^$” “%~2” nul
del “%~2” > nul 2>&1
goto :eof

which looks something like this

As you can tell, this is for my minecraft server (Nexion.co.uk)

and that’s all there is to it! you can use any standard colors that you could already within batch files. (Note: When running without user, i.e. started by another process, the colors requite administrative privileges!)

edit: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7290434/how-can-i-make-a-multi-functional-batch-program