In the last years, cmder became my default console when I needed a cmd.exe-compatible Windows console.
Very often, I have a cmder window with a set of tabs under my standard Windows user, and another that I launch as admi, to switch on/off some services, e.g. MySQL daemon. And in the last weeks, I happened to confuse both a few times, leading me to create a few files owned by the Windows admin :(
Hence I decided to find a way to change the palette when in an admin cmder console.
I found what I was looking for among its Github project issues. Simply create a wrapping cmder.bat batch script in the your cmder root directory with this :
@echo off
set CMDER_ROOT=%~dp0
start %CMDER_ROOT%\vendor\conemu-maximus5\ConEmu.exe /icon "%CMDER_ROOT%\cmder.exe" /single /title Cmder /loadcfgfile "%CMDER_ROOT%\config\ConEmu-%USERNAME%.xml" /cmd cmd /k "%CMDER_ROOT%\vendor\init.bat cd %CD%
Notice that the name of the ConEmu configuration file (the underlying console emulator used by cmder) is ConEmu-%USERNAME%.xml.
Now, in the config/ sub-directory, make a copy of the default ConEmu.xml file for every user you want to launch cmder as and name like that: ConEmu-%USERNAME%.xml.
Finally, launch cmder as admin, right click on the title bar of the window and choose "Settings", go to "Features > Colors" and choose another palette, like "Solarized Light". "Save settings" and you're done !
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