Command prompt default colors in a script?

My computer science professor is having a problem that she charged us to find an answer to. She has many c++ programs to show us in class, which open in a command type window. If you change the default it stays for the duration of class, but the next day (after the computer has been rebooted) the colors revert back to the black and grey. We’ve decided that this is unavoidable, the way our network deals with defaults. After deciding we couldn’t change the default, she wanted us to look around online to see if we could write some kind of executable script to change the color and font in one click, instead of having to go through properties. Any suggestions?