Changing Text Color

[CheesyBeefy]

I've heard in the past that System("anything"); is "bad, slow, and OS dependant". Now I've heard of only one function that changes the color of the text in the Console Window, and it was a System("something"); command, what is the alternative?

[Duthomhas]

I used the little search box in the upper-left corner:
http://www.cplusplus.com/query/search.cgi?q=set+text+color

Here are the answers I like best:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/3662/
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/4133/