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awesome, thank you

Is there a way to end a program with batch? Like if I wanted a batch program to stop Windows Media Player, is this possible?

Your code, even though its short, has some problems. Like if you type an invalid set of characters (like blah or something) it gives this weird message and like spazzes out. Mine fixes that by having a goto colors at the end of each if groups, so if you type anything other than the options, it will ...

wow really? how would i go about doing this? Well, there's little purpose for this in the first place honestly. The first rule of programming is to never repeat yourself (unless absolutely necessary, and this almost never happens). Let the computer do it. This has no error handling, mind you. Wow, ...

basically, if you have your own little batch program, you can put this at the beginning of it and you can choose the colors of your batch program. Gives it a little menu for you to choose from
Hope this helps!

wow really? how would i go about doing this?

the %flee thing was the first line of my actual code. That's why i put it there, it was meant to be changed. And what do you mean about using my input directly?

This is kind of long, and boring, but i made a batch file that will: 1.) Let you choose your text color 2.) Let you choose your background color This code is very long, so make sure you copy the whole thing. This was meant so you can put this into your own batch file. So here it is: :setstuff @echo ...