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Open source on GitHub and under active development.Any shell application uses ConHost and the Terminal UI provides the hosting UI for these shell instances. The Terminal acts as a host to those shells that are loaded inside of it. Keep in mind that Windows Terminal is a Terminal UI, plus the Console Host, and it's not a replacement for the Powershell, CMD or Bash shells or any other shell. For me, the main reason is that it ships with a new ConHost.exe, that is considerably faster than the ConHost shipped with Windows which results in much faster terminal painting and scrolling. There are lots of reasons to like this new Terminal and I don't want to get into all of them here. I've been using Windows Terminal for a while now since it was announced and made available in the Windows Store a few months back. Opening an Admin Windows Terminal from Visual Studio

Leaving this post in place for archival purposes only.Ī related and more recent post that talks about launching from other applications can be found here: Therefore, make sure to open Terminal app in admin mode when needed.This post is mostly obsolete, as Windows Terminal now supports a -d parameter for specifying a startup folder: wt.exe -d "c:\temp". Some options explained in this article will open the app in normal mode which may prevent you from executing commands.

One is to open the app with standard user access and other is to open the app in elevated admin mode. Since, you can run certain commands only in administrator mode, Microsoft offers two options for using Terminal app. For example, you may want to scan the hard disk with chkdsk command or want to find IP address with ipconfig. There are multiple reasons to access Windows Terminal or command line apps. If you frequently use command line, then you will love the latest Windows Terminal app in Windows 11.