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Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts.

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)

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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.

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That's it,
Shawn Brink


 

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I'm trying to change the settings in Terminal in Win 11. When I click on Settings as shown in the tutorial I get taken to the actual settings.json file instead and it is opened in Notepad. It is located here
C:\Users\BobD\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json
I'm trying to set up Terminal but I don't want to do it the risky way by directly editing the settings file. How can I make it just open a Settings window? thanks, Bob.
 

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Is there a way to change the name to actual "command prompt" instead of "windows terminal" when we right click the start menu? I remember there was a setting for that in windows 10 settings, like in the below picture..

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Is there a way to change the name to actual "command prompt" instead of "windows terminal" when we right click the start menu? I remember there was a setting for that in windows 10 settings, like in the below picture..

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Have a look here. It might be what you can use to do what you want.
 

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Have a look here. It might be what you can use to do what you want.
Thankyou so much, exactly What I needed...

Also do you know how to change the same when we right click? There is a an entry "Open in windows terminal" in the right click menu, how do we change it to "Open in command prompt" ?
 

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Thankyou so much, exactly What I needed...

Also do you know how to change the same when we right click? There is a an entry "Open in windows terminal" in the right click menu, how do we change it to "Open in command prompt" ?
You could try some of the items in this search.
Search results for query: context menu
or you could try searching Google with the following string
win 11 how to edit the context menu
 

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You could try some of the items in this search.
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or you could try searching Google with the following string
win 11 how to edit the context menu
Thanks , Shawn has replied me in the below thread itself with the solution..

 

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