Background and foreground of console

I am working on a simple win32 console program using MS VC++ 6.0 and, although not very important, i am trying to change the background of the console window from black to white and the text from white to black. Having googled the problem, i get the impression that it is not possible to change these console properties. Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated. (Although not new to C++, i am also neither an expert, so please try not to be too technical.)