How to change the background colour of highlighted text on windows cmd? - windows

How to change the background colour of highlighted text on windows cmd?
The background colour changes to white however highlighted text background still seems to show as black even though I have changed all the background colours to white.
For example if there is a failure, it will show the exception text background as black instead of white.
Any ideas?

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