The Windows Terminal is a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations.
Windows Terminal uses Windows PowerShell as the default shell profile when you open the Windows Terminal app.
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This tutorial will show you how to change the default shell profile to use when you open the Windows Terminal app for your account in Windows 11.
Here's How:
1 Open Windows Terminal.
2 Click/tap on the down arrow button on the top bar, and click/tap on Settings Ctrl + , (comma). (see screenshot below)
3 Click/tap on Startup in the left pane. (see screenshot below)
4 Select the shell profile (ex: "Windows PowerShell" or "Command Prompt") you want in the Default profile drop menu.
5 Click/tap on Save at the bottom right.
6 You can now close the Settings tab or Windows Terminal if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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